Read time is based on the average reading speed of an adult (roughly 265 Words per minutes according to a Medium's article.

Install

$ npm install minutes-to-read

Usage

const m2r = require('minutes-to-read');

m2r('Lorem ipsum');
// => less than a min to read

m2r('Lorem ipsum', 'minute');
// => less than a minute

const longText = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit am...' // 500 words 

m2r(longText, 'minutes to finish');
// => 2 minutes to finish

m2r(longText, 'minutes to read if your reading rate is 2 wpm', 2);
// => 250 minutes to read if your reading rate is 2 wpm

API

m2r(text)

• text (string): A paragraph, easy or sentence

Example:

m2r('Lorem ipsum');
// => less than a minute


m2r('Lorem ipsum dolor sit am...'); // 500 words 
// => 2 minutes to finish

m2r(text, customText)

• text (string): A paragraph, easy or sentence
• customText (string): A custom text you want to add

Example:

m2r('Lorem ipsum', 'minute to finish');
// => less than a minute to finish

m2r(text, customText, wpm)

• text (string): A paragraph, easy or sentence
• customText (string): A custom text you want to add
• wpm (number): Custom words per minutes

Example:

For a 250 text at 2 words per minutes it will take 250 minutes.

m2r('Lorem ipsum dolor sit am...', 'minutes to finish', 2); // 500 words 
// => 250 minutes to finish

m2r(text,wpm)

• text (string): A paragraph, easy or sentence
• wpm (number): Custom words per minutes

Example:

For a 2 words text reading a word per minute it will take 2 minutes.

m2r('Lorem ipsum', 1);
// => 2 min to read

Team

Carlos Araham

License

MIT License © Carlos Abraham