Word Cloud Generator

Small Python script that turns a text file into a word cloud SVG without any third-party dependencies.

Features

• Pure standard-library Python
• Cleans markdown-style text and URLs before tokenizing
• Filters common stopwords
• Produces reproducible layouts with a configurable random seed
• Writes scalable SVG output

Usage

python create_wordcloud.py --input output.txt --output output_wordcloud.svg

Common options

python create_wordcloud.py \
  --input output.txt \
  --output output_wordcloud.svg \
  --width 1600 \
  --height 900 \
  --max-words 320 \
  --min-word-length 2 \
  --seed 7

Example Output

The script writes SVG. The preview below is an exported PNG example generated from the same word cloud output.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+

Files

• create_wordcloud.py: main script
• output_wordcloud.png: example image shown above