https://github.com/rafaelwi/wikicloud

wikipedia word cloud generator
https://github.com/rafaelwi/wikicloud

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wikipedia word cloud generator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rafaelwi/wikicloud
• Owner: rafaelwi
• Created: 2019-05-04T19:57:35.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-08-20T20:29:52.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-05T20:06:21.801Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 29.3 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# wikicloud

Wikipedia word cloud generator in Python3

![Word cloud example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rafaelwi/rafaelwi.github.io/master/assets/img/wordcloud.png)

# Features

- Can generate word clouds from a Wikipedia article

- Customize the size and look of the cloud

# Running

1. Clone the repo using `git clone https://github.com/rafaelwi/wikicloud.git`

2. Ensure that you have `requests`, `matplotlib`, `BeautifulSoup`, and `lxml`, which are installed with `pip3`

3. Run the script with command below

4. Find the image of the plot in the `plots` folder

## Using the script

To get a specific article:

`python3 cloud.py -a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub` or 

`python3 cloud.py -a GitHub` or

`python3 cloud.py -a 'New York City'`

To specify the height and width, use the `-hi` and `-wi` options respectively. The defaults

are `-hi 800 -wi 800``

`python3 cloud.py -a Github -hi 1000 -wi 4000`

To specify the background color, use the `-bg` option. A list of possible arguements can be

found [here](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#named-colors).

`python3 cloud.py -a GitHub -bg 'darkviolet'`

 

 

 For help in the command line, use:

 `python3 cloud.py --help`

# To add

- Set fonts

- Set font sizes