✨ Now available on npm! Install

✨ Features

🎯 Smart Analysis - Count every word with precision
🔍 Word Search - Find specific word occurrences instantly
🎨 Case-Insensitive - Automatically handles uppercase/lowercase
🚀 Blazing Fast - Pure Node.js with zero dependencies
📋 Clean Output - Beautiful formatted results

📦 Installation

npm install -g @parth_pipermintwala/wordfreq

🚀 Quick Start

Count All Words

count ./text.txt

Output:

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
{ theory: 5, is: 4, in: 6, general: 1, any: 5, practice: 3 }
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total words: 250
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Search for Specific Word

count ./text.txt theory

Output:

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The word "theory" appears 5 times.
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

💡 Use Cases

📝 Content Writers - Analyze your writing patterns
🎓 Students - Study text composition and word usage
🔎 SEO Specialists - Check keyword density
📚 Researchers - Perform quick text analysis
✍️ Authors - Track word frequency in manuscripts

🛠️ How It Works

1. 📖 Reads your text file
2. 🔄 Converts to lowercase for consistency
3. ✂️ Splits into individual words
4. 🧹 Filters out numbers and punctuation
5. 📊 Counts and displays results

⚙️ Technical Details

• Runtime: Node.js 25.2.1+ (ESM modules)
• Dependencies: Zero! Pure Node.js
• File Support: Any text-based file format
• Word Detection: Regex-based (/\W+/ split + alpha filter)
• Error Handling: Clear messages for missing files or invalid paths

📖 Command Syntax

count <filePath> [wordToFind]

| Argument | Required | Description | |----------|----------|-------------| | filePath | ✅ Yes | Path to the text file to analyze | | wordToFind | ⬜ Optional | Specific word to search for |

🎯 Pro Tips

💾 Export Results - Save counts to a file:

count document.txt > results.txt

🔗 Chain Commands - Combine with other tools:

cat *.txt | count combined.txt

📁 Analyze Multiple Files - Use a loop:

for file in *.txt; do count "$file"; done

📄 License

MIT © 2025

Made with ❤️ by Parth Pipermintwala

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