A little word cloud generator in Python. Read more about it on the blog post.
Fast install:
sudo pip install git+git://github.com/amueller/word_cloud.git
Otherwise, get this package:
wget https://github.com/amueller/word_cloud/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
rm master.zip
cd word_cloud-master
Install the requirements:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
Install the package:
sudo python setup.py install
Note that if you are not on Ubuntu, you need to adjust FONT_PATH to point to some existing font.
Check out examples/simple.py for a short intro. A sample output is:
Or run examples/more.py to see more options. A sample output is:
Reddit Cloud is a Reddit bot which generates word clouds for comments in submissions and user histories. You can see it being operated on /u/WordCloudBot2 (top posting).
Send a pull request to add yours here.
Using Pillow instead of PIL might might get you the TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable problem also showcased on the blog.