reading-time

reading-time is the GoLang tool that helps you estimate how long an article will take to read. It works perfectly with plain text, but also with markdown or html.

Note that it's focused on performance and simplicity, so the number of words it will extract from other formats than plain text can vary a little. But this is an estimation right?

Installation

go get github.com/begmaroman/reading-time

Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
 
    readingtime "github.com/begmaroman/reading-time"
)

func main()  {
	myArticle := "some long long long text with ##markdown stuff and <b>html</b>"
	estimation := readingtime.Estimate(myArticle)
	fmt.Println(estimation.Text)        // "1 min read"
	fmt.Println(estimation.Duration)    // 1 min
	fmt.Println(estimation.Words)       // 10
}