WhatsApp Wordcloud Generator

This project contains code to create a Wordcloud that shows you the most commonly used words in a WhatsApp chat.

Setup

This project runs using Python 3.

Installing requirements

Before running the main program, you must install the requirements and download the English stopwords corpus that is used in processing messages. Stopwords are common words such the, a, and.

1. Install requirements by running pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Download the stopwords corpus by running python setup.py

Download WhatsApp data

You can find out how to download chat history here. Make sure to export without media! Place your files in a data/ folder at the top level of this project. They must have the .txt suffix.

Running the main program

To create a Wordcloud, run python create_wordcloud.py. The program will prompt you for the name of the file that you want to process. This file must be in a folder called data and have a .txt suffix. As an example, if you have a file called "Amy.txt" in your data folder, you would only need to type "Amy". Wordclouds will be saved to a wordclouds folder.

Extras

There's no tests or much error handling here yet sorry xx