optional arguments:¶

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--text file

specify file of words to build the word cloud (default: stdin)

--regexp regexp

override the regular expression defining what constitutes a word

--stopwords file

specify file of stopwords (containing one word per line) to remove from the given text after parsing

--imagefile file

file the completed PNG image should be written to (default: stdout)

--fontfile path

path to font file you wish to use (default: DroidSansMono)

--mask file

mask to use for the image form

--colormask file

color mask to use for image coloring

--contour_width width

if greater than 0, draw mask contour (default: 0)

--contour_color color

use given color as mask contour color - accepts any value from PIL.ImageColor.getcolor

--relative_scaling rs

scaling of words by frequency (0 - 1)

--margin width

spacing to leave around words

--width width

define output image width

--height height

define output image height

--color color

use given color as coloring for the image - accepts any value from PIL.ImageColor.getcolor

--background color

use given color as background color for the image - accepts any value from PIL.ImageColor.getcolor

--no_collocations

do not add collocations (bigrams) to word cloud (default: add unigrams and bigrams)

--include_numbers

include numbers in wordcloud?

--min_word_length min_word_length

only include words with more than X letters

--prefer_horizontal ratio

ratio of times to try horizontal fitting as opposed to vertical

--scale scale

scaling between computation and drawing

--colormap map

matplotlib colormap name

--mode mode

use RGB or RGBA for transparent background

--max_words N

maximum number of words

--min_font_size size

smallest font size to use

--max_font_size size

maximum font size for the largest word

--font_step step

step size for the font

--random_state seed

random seed

--no_normalize_plurals

whether to remove trailing 's' from words

--repeat

whether to repeat words and phrases

--version

show program's version number and exit