ngryman/reading-time

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1429 stars · 47 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small TypeScript library that estimates how long a piece of text will take to read, in the style of Medium's reading time indicator. It works with plain text, markdown, and HTML, and supports both string input and streaming analysis.

Use cases

• estimate reading time for blog posts
• show 'x min read' on articles like Medium
• count words in markdown or html content
• compute reading time from a file stream
• customize words-per-minute for reading estimates

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, fast reading-time estimator for Node.js or the browser
• your content is plain text, markdown, or HTML and approximate counts are acceptable
• you want streaming word-count analysis of large files

When to avoid

• you need precise word extraction from complex markup or rich document formats
• you need readability scoring or other text analytics beyond word count and time
• you need support for languages without space-delimited words

Facets

library · maturity stable

nlp developer-tools web-development developer-tools browser reading-time word-count medium estimation typescript natural-language-processing nodejs javascript

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