Does anyone have an App that demos how to generate a word cloud on the fly?
Thanks in advance,
Simon.
I donāt have a demo, but this is quite easy to do using the quickchart.io Word Cloud API
- Start with a column that has a list of words that you want to use
- Create a template column that calls the API and substitute your word list
- Use that template column as the source to an image component
- End result is something like this:
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Thatās great thanks. I did read on one post that there is a limit for the number of words that can be submitted via the URL. Have you encountered that? My source will be hundreds of words long.
I guess I should just try it!
By the way, once you have link as you nicely describe above, what do you do with it? Do you use a button that submits the URL request and then this opens a website page external to the glide App?
I was hoping to get an image back with a URL that I could show within my Appā¦ thoughts?
Thatās my 3rd dot point aboveā¦
I think the limit is constrained by the maximum number of characters allowed in a URI string, which I believe varies from browser to browser. Iāve used it with over 1000 words without any problem.
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Thank youā¦ your explanation works perfectly!
But it only works in Glide for āsome wordsā. Glide image doesnāt seem to work with a long list of wordsā¦ although the same query works fine via PC browser. The limit is going to be a challenge.