Show estimated read time for articles

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For each link categorized as an article, display an approximate time for reading that article.

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Easiest way to get started with estimating the read time is to base it on the number of words in the article.

The average reading speed for an adult is 275 words per minute.

Source: Read Time and You – 3 min read

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To get the number of words in the article or the article text extracted:

API

• Mercury Web Parser by Postlight
• Lateral - Article Extractor

DIY

Node.js

• unfluff
• summarizer

  Scala

• GravityLabs/goose: Html Content / Article Extractor in Scala - open sourced from Gravity Labs

  Python

• grangier/python-goose: Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python
• Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
• kohlschutter/boilerpipe: Work in progress transmit from Google Code
• Justext – Corpus tools
• harshavardhana/boilerpipy: Readability/Boilerpipe extraction in Python

Inspiration

• Evaluating Text Extraction Algorithms
• reddit/media.py at master · reddit/reddit
• List of resources: Article text extraction from HTML documents · My Tech Blog.
• Data Extraction in 10 lines of Python