Generate a word cloud image from a URL

wordcloud.py

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from wordcloud import WordCloud
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def is_wanted_element(element):
    if element.parent.name in ['style', 'script', 'head', 'title', 'meta', '[document]']:
        return False
    return True

def words_in_html(body):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(body, 'html.parser')
    texts = soup.findAll(text=True)
    visible_texts = filter(is_wanted_element, texts)  
    return u" ".join(t.strip() for t in visible_texts)

# enter a url to make a word cloud
url = raw_input('Please enter the URL you want a word cloud of...\n For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauterbrunnen\n\n URL: ')
page = requests.get(url)
html = page.content
words = words_in_html(html)
# print(words)

wordcloud = WordCloud(width=1000, height=700, max_font_size=150).generate(words)
plt.figure()
plt.imshow(wordcloud, interpolation='bilinear')
plt.axis("off")
plt.show()

Web Page to Word Cloud

Generate a word cloud image from a url using Python.

There are lots of free word cloud generators online. I tried to use one recently and was met with a barrage of popups asking me to "OK" cookies and warnings that "We may sell data to advertisers". So here's a quick script to make your own word cloud images for free.

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Create a Word Cloud

git clone https://github.com/wtype/word-cloud-from-url.git

cd word-cloud-from-url

python cloud.py

Enter your url and press enter.