Reading Time Estimator API — Words, Minutes for Any URL
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$10.00 / 1,000 page scanneds
Reading Time Estimator API — Words, Minutes for Any URL
Reading time calculator API. Input: startUrls (article URLs) + optional wpm. Output: JSON per page with words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, readingTimeMinutes at your WPM. Cheap pay-per-result: $0.01 per page scanned, no subscription.
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$10.00 / 1,000 page scanneds
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Anthony Snider
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Webpage Reading Time Estimator
Know how long any article takes to read — before you read it.
Live on the Apify Store — run it instantly, or call it as an agent tool via Apify MCP.
Give it any URL (or a list) and it fetches the page, extracts the visible text, and returns the word count plus a clean reading-time estimate at the speed you choose. Perfect for content audits, SEO "X min read" badges, newsletter curation, and agents that need to budget reading time.
What you get
- words, characters, sentences, paragraphs — real content length, nav/ads/scripts stripped out
- readingTimeMin — minutes to read at your configured WPM (default 225, average adult silent reading)
- speakingTimeMin — minutes to read aloud (150 WPM), great for video/podcast scripts
- title of the page, plus
finalUrlandstatusCode - Single URL or bulk — process many URLs in one run
Input
{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping","wpm": 225,"maxUrls": 25}
Use urls (an array) instead of url to process several pages at once.
Output
{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping","finalUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping","statusCode": 200,"title": "Web scraping - Wikipedia","words": 4551,"characters": 23581,"sentences": 333,"paragraphs": 172,"readingTimeMin": 21,"speakingTimeMin": 31,"wpm": 225}
One result is pushed per URL. Pricing is pay-per-event: one page-scanned charge per page successfully scanned.