https://github.com/jsit/readlength.org

Get the word count and estimated reading time of an article on the web. No text selection required.
https://github.com/jsit/readlength.org

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Get the word count and estimated reading time of an article on the web. No text selection required.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jsit/readlength.org
• Owner: jsit
• Created: 2014-02-24T22:04:05.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-06-01T13:23:05.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-02T09:40:33.463Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://www.readlength.org
• Size: 10.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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# readlength.org

Get the word count and estimated reading time of an article on the web. No text selection required.

Pull requests welcome.

## Bookmarklet URI

    

    javascript:(function(){_wordcount_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_wordcount_script.type='text/javascript';_wordcount_script.src='http://readlength.org/wordcount.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_wordcount_script);;})();

## Sources

readlength.org uses code from [Readability](http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/) by Arc90, and from a Gist by [Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell](https://gist.github.com/darkliquid/5244870).

## Alternatives

* http://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/word-count-bookmarklet/

* http://charcount.appspot.com/

## License

Distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0.