https://github.com/atizo/PyTagCloud

Create beautiful tag clouds as images or HTML
https://github.com/atizo/PyTagCloud

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Create beautiful tag clouds as images or HTML

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/atizo/PyTagCloud
• Owner: atizo
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2010-08-02T18:01:28.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-12-01T22:41:44.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-18T00:42:27.446Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://labs.atizo.com/software/#pytagcloud
• Size: 2.09 MB
• Stars: 396
• Watchers: 31
• Forks: 128
• Open Issues: 13
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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 PyTagCloud

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PyTagCloud let you create simple tag clouds inspired by http://www.wordle.net/

Currently, the following output formats have been written and are working:

- PNG images

- HTML/CSS code

If you have ideas for other formats please let us know.

Installation

============

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

To install using `pip`::

    $ pip install -U pytagcloud

To install using `easy_install`::

    $ easy_install -U pytagcloud

Downloading and installing from source

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Download the latest version of PyTagCloud from

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytagcloud/

You can install it by doing the following,::

    $ tar xfz pytagcloud-*.tar.gz

    $ cd pytagcloud-*/

    $ python setup.py build

    $ python setup.py install # as root

Requirements

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#. Install `pygame `_ >= 1.9.1::

    $ apt-get install python-pygame

    

#. Install simplejson::

   $ pip install simplejson

Quick start

===========

You probably want to see some code by now, so here's an example:

::

    from pytagcloud import create_tag_image, make_tags

    from pytagcloud.lang.counter import get_tag_counts

    

    YOUR_TEXT = "A tag cloud is a visual representation for text data, typically\

    used to depict keyword metadata on websites, or to visualize free form text."

    tags = make_tags(get_tag_counts(YOUR_TEXT), maxsize=80)

    

    create_tag_image(tags, 'cloud_large.png', size=(900, 600), fontname='Lobster')

    import webbrowser

    webbrowser.open('cloud_large.png') # see results

More examples can be found in `test.py `_.

                                        

Example

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`Demo `_

.. image:: https://github.com/atizo/PyTagCloud/raw/master/docs/example.png

Contributing

============

Development of `pytagcloud` happens at Github: https://github.com/atizo/PyTagCloud

You are highly encouraged to participate in the development

of `pytagcloud`. If you don't like Github (for some reason) you're welcome

to send regular patches.