utils.py

import re
import nltk
from wordcloud import WordCloud
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import io

nltk.download("stopwords")
from nltk.corpus import stopwords

stop_words = set(stopwords.words("english"))

def clean_text(text):
    text = re.sub(r"http\S+", "", text)        # remove URLs
    text = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z\s]", "", text)    # remove special chars
    text = text.lower()
    tokens = [w for w in text.split() if w not in stop_words]
    return " ".join(tokens)

def generate_wordcloud(text):
    wordcloud = WordCloud(width=800, height=400, background_color="white").generate(text)
    img = io.BytesIO()
    plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4))
    plt.imshow(wordcloud, interpolation="bilinear")
    plt.axis("off")
    plt.savefig(img, format="png")
    plt.close()
    return img.getvalue()