Prosegrinder

A relatively fast, functional prose text counter with readability scoring.

Installation

prosegrinder is available on PyPI. Simply install it with pip:

pip install prosegrinder

Usage

The main use is via the prosegrinder.Prose object.

>>> from prosegrinder import Prose
>>> p = Prose("Some lengthy text that's actual prose, like a novel or article.")

The Prose object will parse everything down and compute basic statistics, including word count, sentence count, paragraph count, syllable count, point of view, dialogue, narrative, and a set of readability scores. All objects and attributes should be treated as immutable.

I know this isn't great documentation, but it should be enough to get you going.

Command Line Interface

Prosegrinder now includes a simple CLI for analyzing text in a file:

$ prosegrinder --help
Usage: prosegrinder [OPTIONS] FILES...

  Setup the command line interface

Options:
  -i, --indent INTEGER  Python pretty-print json indent level.
  -s, --save FILENAME   File to save output to.
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Will provide basic statistics on text from a file or set of files including the filename and sh256 of text in each file analyzed. Output is json to help facilitate use in automation::

[
  {
    "filename": "shortstory.txt",
    "statistics": {
      "sha256": "5b756dea7c7f0088ff3692e402466af7f4fc493fa357c1ae959fa4493943fc03",
      "word_character_count": 7008,
      "phone_count": 5747,
      "syllable_count": 2287,
      "word_count": 1528,
      "sentence_count": 90,
      "paragraph_count": 77,
      "complex_word_count": 202,
      "long_word_count": 275,
      "pov_word_count": 113,
      "first_person_word_count": 8,
      "second_person_word_count": 74,
      "third_person_word_count": 31,
      "pov": "first",
      "readability_scores": {
        "automated_readability_index": 0.281,
        "coleman_liau_index": 9.425,
        "flesch_kincaid_grade_level": 8.693,
        "flesch_reading_ease": 62.979,
        "gunning_fog_index": 12.079,
        "linsear_write": 10.733,
        "lix": 34.975,
        "rix": 3.056,
        "smog": 11.688
      }
    }
  },
  {
    "filename": "copyright.txt",
    "statistics": {
      "sha256": "553bfd087a2736e4bbe2f312e3d3a5b763fb57caa54e3626da03b0fd3f42e017",
      "word_character_count": 222,
      "phone_count": 169,
      "syllable_count": 78,
      "word_count": 46,
      "sentence_count": 7,
      "paragraph_count": 16,
      "complex_word_count": 10,
      "long_word_count": 12,
      "pov_word_count": 1,
      "first_person_word_count": 1,
      "second_person_word_count": 0,
      "third_person_word_count": 0,
      "pov": "first",
      "readability_scores": {
        "automated_readability_index": 1.404,
        "coleman_liau_index": 8.073,
        "flesch_kincaid_grade_level": 6.982,
        "flesch_reading_ease": 56.713,
        "gunning_fog_index": 11.324,
        "linsear_write": 3.714,
        "lix": 32.658,
        "rix": 1.714,
        "smog": 9.957
      }
    }
  }
]

Readability scores

The set of scores automatically calculated:

• Automated Readability Index
• Coleman Liau Index
• Flesch Kincaid Grade Level
• Flesch Reading Ease
• Gunning Fog Index
• Linsear Write
• LIX
• RIX
• SMOG