Bookmarklet for word counts on your YC application

[kaistinchcombe]

javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return setTimeout(wordCount, 100); } var $ = jQuery; $('.wc').remove(); $('textarea').each(function(idx,elem) { var wc = $(elem).text().split(/[ \n]+/).length; $(elem).after('<div class="wc"'+( (wc>120) ? ' style="color: red"':'')+'>'+wc+'</div>'); }); }; if (!window.jQuery) { var c=document.createElement("script"); c.type="text/javascript"; c.src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"; document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(c); } wordCount(); })();

https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/raw/6c6d6d852970a5b629a83f9ac6d55d701e0a3926/gistfile1.js

doesn't update live, that would be super annoying. click again to update.

[keiferski]

I'm not a programmer by any means, but I did write this little word-counter while going through a Ruby book. You might find it useful...?

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lines = File.readlines("text.txt") line_count = lines.size text = lines.join total_characters = text.length total_characters_nospaces = text.gsub(/\s+/, '').length word_count = text.split.length sentence_count = text.split(/\.|\?|!/).length paragraph_count = text.split(/\n\n/).length

puts "This document contains:" puts "#{line_count} lines" puts "#{total_characters} characters" puts "#{total_characters_nospaces} characters excluding spaces" puts "#{word_count} words" puts "#{sentence_count} sentences." puts "#{paragraph_count} paragraphs." puts "#{sentence_count / paragraph_count} sentences per paragraph (average)" puts "#{word_count / sentence_count} words per sentence (average)"

[kaistinchcombe]

update should have used val() rather than text(). https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/

javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return setTimeout(wordCount, 100); } var $ = jQuery; $('.wc').remove(); $('textarea').each(function(idx,elem) { var wc = $(elem).val().split(/[ \n]+/).length; $(elem).after('<div class="wc"'+( (wc>120) ? ' style="color: red"':'')+'>'+wc+'</div>'); }); }; if (!window.jQuery) { var c=document.createElement("script"); c.type="text/javascript"; c.src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min...; document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(c); } wordCount(); })();