I like this because I can just plug in the URL of any old article I might want to read and see what I'm getting myself into, e.g. http://klopets.com/readtime/?url=http://www.newyorker.com/ma.... Now that I know it's a 15 minute read, I'll probably save it for later.
This would be great as a browser plugin.
You are right, and thanks for pointing that out. I can generally tell how long it will take to read an article with a little scroll and a glance at the scroll bar. If the scroll bar is small, reading is going to take a while and vice versa.
I have a lot of quality content marked for later and not knowing how long it is (especially when e.g. commuting to work when I have 10 minutes only) is rather annoying. And managing the list isn't something I fancy doing myself (we have computers for that!).
Drop me an email (in my profile) if you want to talk a bit more about this problem.
But if you wrote this to warn me, then thanks!
I did.
You're not the first person to make that kind of mistake, and I assumed it was an obvious enough "attack" that trying to communicate it privately wasn't required.
(Source for 200 words per minute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Reading_and_c... )
https://github.com/grangier/python-goose
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/textstat/
+ using word counts that adjust for reading ease
NOTE: If you are using a library for easily doing HTTP requests, than you can probably use a library for estimating time to read.
I plugged one of my own posts in and it read 3 minutes and 166 seconds (5 minutes and 46 seconds).
Just asking because there's no explanation, and it would be probably better to hack something in JS than to depend on this probably-soon-to-vanish-api. There's already https://eager.io/app/reading-time, for example, which anyone can install in 2 minutes, and is based on a simple algorithm[1], it seems.
[1]: https://github.com/TeffenEllis/reading-time/blob/master/app....
I do think I should adjust the words per minute values...
[1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/po... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabil...
