News Word Clouds

A web application for building Word Cloud from news artciles using Python and Flask.

Word Cloud

Word clouds are a popular way to visualise large amounts of text. Word clouds are images showing scattered words in different sizes, where words that appear more frequently in the given text are larger, and less common words are smaller or not shown at all.

Application

The app uses web-scraping, parses RSS feeds and builds image files directly in memory to display the word cloud.

Launch Application

This application could be run locally using Docker like so:

1. Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/realnitinworks/news-word-clouds.git

2. Build and start the application

This step starts the Flask web application in a docker container listening on port 5000

$ cd news-word-clouds
$ docker-compose up -d --build

3. Open browser at 127.0.0.1:5000 to see the word cloud

Tear-down Application

While still inside the news-word-clouds, execute the following command

$ docker-compose down