This is a small code that scrapes a website at given url and creates a word cloud using its contents and an input image as a template.

Input Args:

--url: url to website

--image-file: image to be used as template for the word cloud

--output-file: path to the generated output word cloud file

--max-words: maximum number of words uses in the word cloud, default = 500

--max-font-size: maximum font size used in the word cloud, default = 40

Prerequisites

Clone the repo by running git clone https://github.com/arcisad/UrlWordCloud.git. Open terminal and cd the local downloaded directory.

run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required package.

Use the provided usage line below to run the code.

usage

python main.py --url <url> --image-file <path_to_image_file> --output-file <path_to_output_file> --max-words <max_num_words> --max-font-size <max_font_size>

Example

python main.py --url <antarctic_related_url> --image-file test_input/antarctica.jpg --output-file an_wordcloud.jpg --max-words 100 --max-font-size 50

Note: The output wordcloud image will have the same resolution of the input image.

Note: YOU are responsible for any copyright, protection, access, licencing, etc... attached to the used urls as your inputs to this code and their contents.