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

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/masked.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.