text-stats-cli

Text statistics CLI tool: word count, character count, reading time, readability scores, and word frequency analysis.

Install

npm install -g text-stats-cli

Usage

# Analyze a file
text-stats -f article.txt

# Pipe from stdin
cat essay.txt | text-stats

# JSON output
text-stats -f report.md --json

# Top 20 words, ignoring common words
text-stats -f book.txt --top 20 --ignore-common

Output

• Characters / Characters (no spaces) / Words / Sentences / Paragraphs / Lines
• Average word length and sentence length
• Reading time (~200 wpm) and Speaking time (~130 wpm)
• Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability score
• Coleman-Liau Index readability score
• Top word frequency with bar chart

Options

| Flag | Description | | --- | --- | | -f, --file <path> | Input file path | | --stdin | Read from stdin | | --json | Output as JSON | | --top <n> | Number of top words (default: 10) | | --ignore-common | Skip common words in frequency | | -V, --version | Show version | | -h, --help | Show help |

License

MIT