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A little word cloud generator in Python

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word_cloud
==========

A little word cloud generator in Python. Read more about it on the [blog
post][blog-post] or the [website][website].

The code is tested against Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.

## Installation

If you are using pip:

    pip install wordcloud

If you are using conda, you can install from the `conda-forge` channel:

    conda install -c conda-forge wordcloud


#### Installation notes

wordcloud depends on `numpy`, `pillow`, and `matplotlib`.

If there are no wheels available for your version of python, installing the
package requires having a C compiler set up. Before installing a compiler, report
an issue describing the version of python and operating system being used.


## Examples

Check out [examples/simple.py][simple] for a short intro. A sample output is:

![Constitution](examples/constitution.png)

Or run [examples/masked.py][masked] to see more options. A sample output is:

![Alice in Wonderland](examples/alice.png)

Getting fancy with some colors:
![Parrot with rainbow colors](examples/parrot_new.png)

Generating wordclouds for Arabic:

![Arabic wordlcloud](examples/arabic_example.png)


## Command-line usage

The `wordcloud_cli` tool can be used to generate word clouds directly from the command-line:

	$ wordcloud_cli --text mytext.txt --imagefile wordcloud.png

If you're dealing with PDF files, then `pdftotext`, included by default with many Linux distribution, comes in handy:

	$ pdftotext mydocument.pdf - | wordcloud_cli --imagefile wordcloud.png

In the previous example, the `-` argument orders `pdftotext` to write the resulting text to stdout, which is then piped to the stdin of `wordcloud_cli.py`.

Use `wordcloud_cli --help` so see all available options.

[blog-post]: http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2012/11/a-wordcloud-in-python.html
[website]: http://amueller.github.io/word_cloud/
[simple]: examples/simple.py
[masked]: examples/masked.py
[reddit-cloud]: https://github.com/amueller/reddit-cloud
[wc2]: http://www.reddit.com/user/WordCloudBot2
[wc2top]: http://www.reddit.com/user/WordCloudBot2/?sort=top
[chat-stats]: https://github.com/popcorncolonel/Chat_stats
[twitter-word-cloud-bot]: https://github.com/defacto133/twitter-wordcloud-bot
[twitter-wordnuvola]: https://twitter.com/wordnuvola
[imgur-wordnuvola]: http://defacto133.imgur.com/all/
[intprob]: http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2012/11/a-wordcloud-in-python.html#bc_0_28B


## Licensing
The wordcloud library is MIT licenced, but contains DroidSansMono.ttf, a true type font by Google, that is apache licensed.
The font is by no means integral, and any other font can be used by setting the ``font_path`` variable when creating a ``WordCloud`` object.