pywordcloud

Python package to generate word clouds by analysing the text.

Features

• Generate output format in HTML

• Control over css styling

• Control over Words

Install

You can install pywordcloud either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source.

To install using pip:

$ pip install pywordcloud

To install using easy_install:

$ easy_install pywordcloud

Downloading and installing from source

Download the latest version of PyTagCloud from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywordcloud/

You can install it by doing the following,:

$ tar xfz pywordcloud-*.tar.gz

$ cd pywordcloud-*/

$ python setup.py build

$ python setup.py install # as root

Usage

from pywordcloud import pywordcloud

if __name__ == '__main__':
	text = open("input.txt").read()
	create(text, 
		outfile="output.html", 
		uppercase=False, 
		showfreq=True, 
		frequency=100, 
		removepunct = False, 
		minfont = 1.5, 
		maxfont = 6, 
		hovercolor="green", 
		showborder=False, 
		fontfamily='calibri', 
		width="1000px", 
		height="400px",
		#colorlist = ["red","blue","yellow","black","green"] 
		)

Arguments

text: Input text to create word cloud

outfile: Name of the ouput file, should ends with .html

uppercase: Boolean True to generate WC with all words in Upper Case, Otherwise False

showfreq: Boolean True to generate WC with words and their frequencies

frequency: Number of words to display in WC

removepunct: Set True to remove all punctuations from text

minfont: Set minimum font in Word Cloud (in pixels)

maxfont: Set maximum font in Word Cloud (in pixels)

hovercolor: Set hover color for words

showborder: Bollean True to show border of WC

fontfamily: Set Font Family for WC

width: Set Width of WC

height: Set height of WC

colorlist: Set custom color list seperated by commas.

Examples