read-time-estimate

A more accurate Medium like read time estimate with images in progression and Chinese / Japanese / Korean character support.

Features

• Calculates read time of images in decreasing progression with ability to provide custom image tags (Example - 12 seconds for the first image, 11 for the second, until images counted at 3 seconds)
• Calculates read time of the Chinese / Japanese / Korean characters separately
• Removes unwanted html tags to calculate read time more efficiently

Install

$ npm i read-time-estimate --save

Usage

const readTimeEstimate = require('read-time-estimate');

const string = `<img src="test.png"/><div class="wrapper">
    This is a sample read time estimate with 中文/日文/韩文 text </div>`
                
const {
    humanizedDuration, // 'less than a minute'
    duration, // 0.23272727272727273
    totalWords, // 9
    wordTime, // 0.03272727272727273
    totalImages, // 1
    imageTime, //  0.2
    otherLanguageTimeCharacters, // 6
    otherLanguageTime, // 0.012
} = readTimeEstimate(string, 275, 12, 500, ['img', 'Image'])

Input

Variable	Defaults	Type	Description
string	required	string	Input String
customWordTime	275	number	Speed of reading the text in Words per Minute
customImageTime	12	number	Speed of reading the image in seconds
chineseKoreanReadTime	500	number	Speed of reading the Chinese / Korean / Japanese characters in Characters per Minute
imageTags	['img', 'Image']	array	Custom Image tags to parse in the input string

Output

Variable	Type	Description
humanizedDuration	string	Humanized Duration for the input string
duration	number	Actual Duration of the input string (in minutes)
totalWords	number	Number of words in the input string
wordTime	number	Read Time of the words in the input string (in minutes)
totalImages	number	Number of images in input string
imageTime	number	Read Time of the images in the input string (in minutes)
otherLanguageTimeCharacters	number	Chinese / Japanese / Korean language characters count
otherLanguageTime	number	Read Time of the Chinese / Japanese / Korean in the input string (in minutes)

Gatsby Plugin

gatsby-read-time-estimate

References

Medium

• Help
• Blog

Contribution

• @pritishvaidya The main author.

Questions

Feel free to contact me or create an issue