# How to extract number of words (for time reading a post) in franklin.jl

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**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-extract-number-of-words-for-time-reading-a-post-in-franklin-jl/111502 "2024-03-12T06:11:02Z")\
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I’m looking to improve my blog a bit with Franklin, and one thing I want to add to make it more user-friendly is something like the number of words and the approximate reading time (this as a simple calculation of proportion of the former) for each post.

So, I want to write a function `hfun_wordcount()` in `utils.jl` and then include it in each post. My question is, what function should I use to extract the corpus of this text?