# Retim
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Estimate the reading time of a text or a text file
## Installation
You can donwload retim or you can install it as package, to use it in your projects.
You can found it at [Hex](https://hex.pm/packages/retim).
Also you can add `retim` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:
```elixir
def deps do
[{:retim, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end
```
## Supported languages:
- English: "en"
- Greek: "gr"
- Italian: "it"
- Spanish: "es"
## How to use it
Estimate the reading time of a setence:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count("Hello World")
"1 minute"
```
You can change the default language:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count("Hello World", "it")
"1 minuto"
```
The average reading time per minute is 180 words. If you want to change it you can pass a second argument:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count("Hello World", "en", 120)
"1 minute"
```
If you want to change only the reading time, you need to choose the language or leave the second argument blank:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count("Hello World", "", 150)
```
Read words from a file:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count_file("hello.md")
"4 minutes"
```
Read a file and change the average reading time to 120 words / per minute:
```elixir
iex> Retim.count_file("hello.md", "en", 120)
"7 minutes"
```
If you want, you can change the default language:
```elixir
iex>Retim.count("Hello World", "it")
"1 minuto"
```
## Use Retim on Phoenix
Add retim on your dependencies:
```elixir
defp deps do
[{:phoenix, "~> 1.2.1"},
........
........
{:cowboy, "~> 1.0"},
{:retim, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end
```
Run deps.get on your terminal:
```elixir
mix deps.get
```
### Example
Generate a post:
```elixir
mix phoenix.gen.html Post posts title:string body:text
```
To count the reading time of the body text, add count(@post.body) on your templates(post/show.html.eex):
```elixir
<%= Retim.count(@post.body) %>
```
### Result
To change the language add:
```elixir
<%= Retim.count(@post.body, "es") %>
```
### Result (with spanish)
### To-do
- [ ] Add new print format (Example: 3 minutes and 10 seconds)
- [ ] Add other languages
