Creating images locally without having to open plots and click on the save as image button would be awesome. This however will take some work.

The only way i found to do this so far is using Orca, which is a command line utility that plotly itself uses to render images. Orca can be either installes as npm module, conda package, or deployed as a docker container. All of these add some overhead but i still think this is usefull. I will start to implement some functions to call orca functions and we will see how it goes.