Word cloud from Messenger

Create a word cloud to expose your or your friend’s most common words based on your Messenger history

General info

This repository contains an easy-to-use program, which let you easily generate a graphic with a word cloud, which displays the most frequently used words or phrases on Messenger by you or your interlocutor.

Generated sample word cloud:

Technologies

It uses Python with basic libraries, this word cloud generator and matplotlib library in versions:

python==3.10.6
wordcloud==1.8.2.2
matplotlib==3.6.1

Besides, to run word-cloud.ipynb (an alternative to word-cloud.py) you need a program that supports jupyter notebooks.

jupyterlab==3.4.4
IPython==8.4.0

Usage

It's really easy.

1. Download the data from your Facebook account (instruction).

2. Put all unpacked data into the data folder.

3. You can put your stopwords (words to be omitted) in the my-stopwords.txt file.

4. Launch the program. You'll see the top 10 users with the most messages.

5. Select the user for whom you want to generate a cloud of words. You can do this by entering a place in the list generated above, (e.g. 1) or by entering any full username, such as Mark DeVolay.

That's it, the cloud should be generated and placed in the word_clouds folder. I hope you will be satisfied with the effect.

Have fun!