selectnull / jquery-readingstats

jQuery plugin to calculate reading stats (word count, reading time)

=========================== jQuery reading stats plugin

jQuery reading stats plugin, v1.0

Use it to calculate and display time to read a piece of text, eg a blog post.

How to use it?

There are two arguments and both are optional. The first is options object with which you can customize reading speed (in words per minute) and formatter funtion to display the result.

• readingSpeed, default value is 200 words per minute
• format, formatter function that takes a number (of seconds) and returns a string like 2 min 45 sec

There are two ways to call it. First is to get result directly, like this:

var rs = $('#my-content').readingStats({
    readingSpeed: 100,
    format: function (x) {return x.toString() + ' sec';}
});

console.log(rs.wordCount); // word count
console.log(rs.secondsToRead); // number of seconds
console.log(rs.format()); // formatted output

If you want to do something else with selector, you can specify callback function as second argument and chain whatever jQuery methods after it.

$('#my-content').readingStats({readingSpeed: 240}, function (stats) {
        console.log(stats);
        // do something with stats object
    }
).fadeOut().fadeIn();

Licence

The code is MIT licensed.