Twitter word cloud generator which creates beautiful, colorful tweet visualizations for a given user. Built for Python 2.7, Python Twitter Tools 1.17.1 and word_cloud.
$ python tweetcloud.py text=@realDonaldTrump stopwords=stopwords-twitter.txt mask=trump.jpg color=1
$ python tweetcloud.py text=alice.txt stopwords=stopwords-alice.txt mask=alice-color.png color=1
$ python tweetcloud.py text=@AdamSchefter stopwords=stopwords-twitter.txt color=0
$ python tweetcloud.py text={<@twitter_screen_name>, <.txt_file>} [stopwords=<.txt_file>] [mask=<mask_image>] [color={0, 1}] [max_font_size=[0-9]]
text is a mandatory command line agrument to tweetcloud. When the text option begins with @, a twitter handle is assumed to be specified and the most recent tweets (up to 3,240) from that twitter user will be used to generate the tweetcloud. Otherwise, the text option is assumed to be a file and the text from the file will be used to generate the tweetcloud.
stopwords is an optional command line argument. The value to stopwords should be the location of a .txt file containing a list of words to be ignored by the tweetcloud, one word per line. An example of can be found in stopwords-twitter.txt
mask is an optional command line argument. The value to mask should be the location of an image file containing the desired shape of the tweetcloud.
color is an optional command line argument only to be evaluated if mask is specified. If color=0, text will be black. If color=1, text will have colors from mask.
max_font_size is an optional command line argument which must be a number and specifies the maximum font size used in the tweetcloud.
When the text option begins with @ tweetcloud gets tweets from the specified user using API tokens associated with a twitter application. Click here to create a set of application keys associated with a Twitter account. Variables ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, and CONSUMER_SECRET in tweetcloud.py must be customized with appropriate application keys.