WordCounter

Counts words from either a file or a website, and prints a report to stdout.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'word_counter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install word_counter

Usage

To count a website's words:

$ word_counter www.example.com
Results:
2 Domain
2 Example
2 domain
2 examples
2 for
2 in
1 More
1 This
1 You
1 asking
1 be

To count a file's words:

$ word_counter ./path/to/my/file.txt

Use the -s switch to also report which lines contained the counted word (can result in lot of text output, so you might want to pipe it to less):

$ word_counter www.example.com -s | less
Results:
2 Domain
    1: Example Domain
2 Example
    1: Example Domain
2 domain
    1: This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may use this
    2: domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission.
2 examples
    1: This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may use this
    2: domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission.

With all the options:

$ word_counter www.example.com -s -c | less -R

Options

-c Colorize output
-s Show sentences containing the words in question

Roadmap

Ignore common words (a, for, it, the, of, etc.)
Ignore case

Contributing

Fork it ( http://github.com/wulftone/word_counter/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

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