# benhmoore/Knwl

Find Dates, Places, Times, and More. A .js library for parsing text for specific information.

Repository: https://github.com/benhmoore/Knwl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/knwl
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-09-28T00:34:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4659, "days_push": 1071, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5252, forks 210 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:13.706669+00:00)

## What it is
Knwl.js is a JavaScript library that parses natural language text to extract specific information such as dates, times, phone numbers, email addresses, and places. It uses a plugin architecture where parser plugins provide new extraction abilities, with several default plugins included.

## Use cases
- extract dates and times from free-form text
- find phone numbers and email addresses in strings
- detect place names mentioned in user input
- parse structured info out of emails or messages
- build a chatbot that understands dates in user text
- automatically extract entities from documents in Node.js or the browser

## When to choose
- you need lightweight, client- or server-side entity extraction from English text without heavy ML models
- you want an extensible parser with a plugin system for custom entity types

## When to avoid
- you need high-accuracy NER across many languages or complex entities - use an ML-based NLP library instead
- the project's future is uncertain per its own issue tracker, so avoid it for critical long-term dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: nlp, parser, plugin-system
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: text-parsing, entity-extraction, information-extraction, dates, phone-numbers, email-parsing, natural-language-processing, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- benhmoore/Knwl (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.706669+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:59:33.817146+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/benhmoore/Knwl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.706669+00:00, sha 87a12d02d6b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.