Wordcloud Generator

This is a simple Python script that generates a wordcloud from a readme file. You can customize the settings of the wordcloud by editing the config file.

Requirements

• Python 3.6 or higher
• wordcloud
• bs4
• PIL
• numpy
• configparser

Usage

• Edit the config.ini file to change the parameters of the wordcloud, such as the readme file path, the mask file name, the dimensions, colors, etc, in the [DEFAULT] section. You can also specify the words you want to exclude from the wordcloud in the [EXCLUSIONS] section. Additionally, you can set the wordcloud_output parameter to define the name of the wordcloud image file that will be saved.
• Run the wordcloud-generator.py script using python wordcloud-generator.py.
• The script will read the readme file, extract the text from the markdown content, and create the wordcloud. The wordcloud will be saved as the name specified by the wordcloud_output parameter in the same directory.
• You can view the wordcloud image using any image viewer or editor.

Example

Here is an example of a wordcloud generated from this readme file, using a sherlock mask and saving the image as wordcloud.png:

GitHub Actions

You can also use GitHub Actions to run the script automatically whenever you commit changes to the readme file. To do this, you can use the workflow file update-readme.yaml from folder github-actions, update it to fit your needs and save it inside the .github/workflows/ form your git repo.

You can see it in practice in my personal Git repo.

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