Prerequisites and Required Libraries

Introduction

To generate a word cloud we’ll use data from the following website:

https://us.trend-calendar.com/trend/2020-01-01.html

The above website stores archives of the trending keywords and hashtags each day. We’ll use Beautiful Soup to scrape data and build an application based on the following features:

• A word cloud for the year 2020.

• Provide the user an option to select a date and generate a word cloud for it.

• Provide the user an option to change the image mask.

Prerequisites

• Basic familiarity with web scraping using Beautiful Soup.
• Knowledge of Streamlit is not necessary for generating the word clouds but a basic understanding of Streamlit is required to build the web app.

Install the required libraries

We need to install the following libraries:

• Streamlit
• Matplotlib
• Beautiful Soup
• pandas
• wordcloud

To install the above libraries, run the following line of code:

pip install pandas,streamlit,wordcloud,matplotlib,bs4