📝 Word Counter

A simple tool to count words in text or from a webpage URL. Provides total word count, unique words, and word frequency analysis. Perfect for content analysis, SEO, or text analytics.

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🚀 Features

• Count total words in any text
• Count unique words
• Generate word frequency lists
• Analyze text input or fetch text from a URL
• JSON output for easy integration into automation workflows

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📥 Input Schema

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
text	string	❌ No	""	Text to count words from. Can be empty if url is provided.
url	string	❌ No	""	URL to fetch text from for word counting. Can be empty if text is provided.
topKeywords	integer	❌ No	10	Optional: Number of most frequent words to return. Defaults to 10.

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⚙️ How It Works

1. Text Input

   • Analyzes the provided text and counts total and unique words.
   • Generates a frequency list of the most common words.

2. URL Input

   • Fetches page content from the provided url and performs the same word counting analysis.

3. Top Words

   • Returns a list of the topKeywords most frequent words if requested.

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🧮 Example

Input (Text)

{
  "text": "Apify is a platform for web scraping, automation, and data extraction. Apify allows building actors to automate tasks.",
  "topKeywords": 5
}

Output

{
  "totalWords": 17,
  "uniqueWords": 15,
  "topWords": [
    {"word": "Apify", "count": 2},
    {"word": "automation", "count": 1},
    {"word": "actors", "count": 1},
    {"word": "platform", "count": 1},
    {"word": "tasks", "count": 1}
  ]
}

Input (URL)

{
  "url": "https://apify.com/docs",
  "topKeywords": 10
}

Output

{
  "totalWords": 1200,
  "uniqueWords": 650,
  "topWords": [
    {"word": "Apify", "count": 50},
    {"word": "actors", "count": 35},
    {"word": "platform", "count": 25},
    ...
  ]
}

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🏗️ Use Cases

• Content analysis for blogs, articles, and websites
• SEO optimization and readability assessment
• Generating word frequency statistics for research or reporting
• Automation workflows for text analytics pipelines

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⚡ Notes

• Either text or url must be provided. If both are given, text takes priority.
• topKeywords controls how many of the most frequent words are returned. Default is 10.
• Output includes total words, unique words, and a frequency list.

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📄 License

MIT License