txtgen

txtgen

Lightweight util for generating random sentences, paragraphs and articles in English. Inspired by Sentencer and metaphorpsum.com.

Demo

See how it works?

Setup

• Node.js

  npm install txtgen
  

• CDN

  • txtgen.js
  • txtgen.min.js
  • txtgen.min.map

• Also supports ES6 Module, CommonJS, AMD and UMD style.

Usage

var txtgen = require('txtgen');

let sentence = txtgen.sentence();
console.log(sentence);

let paragraph = txtgen.paragraph();
console.log(paragraph);

let article = txtgen.article();
console.log(article);

APIs

• .sentence()
• .paragraph([Number totalSentences])
• .article([Number totalParagraphs])
• .addNouns(Array nouns)
• .addAdjectives(Array adjectives)
• .addTemplates(Array sentenceTemplates)
• .setNouns(Array nouns)
• .setAdjectives(Array adjectives)
• .setTemplates(Array sentenceTemplates)
• .getNouns()
• .getAdjectives()
• .getTemplates()

As their name means, we have 4 groups of methods:

• sentence(), paragraph(), article(): generate text by given grammatical unit
• addNouns(), addAdjectives(), addTemplates(): add more samples to current sample set
• setNouns(), setAdjectives(), setTemplates(): replace current sample set with new ones
• getNouns(), getAdjectives(), getTemplates(): get current sample set

The set* and get* methods were added since v2.2.3 to help you customize your sample data.

Template

If you want to add more kinds of sentence, just use .addTemplates() method. It expects a list of sentence templates. Each of sentence template is an English sentence, with the placeholders that can be replaced with any alternative word.

For example:

import {
  addTemplates
} from 'txtgen';

let templates = [
  '{{a_noun}} is {{a_noun}} from the right perspective',
  'the {{noun}} of {{a_noun}} becomes {{an_adjective}} {{noun}}'
];

addTemplates(templates);

Here are the available placeholders:

• noun
• nouns
• a_noun
• adjective
• an_adjective

Test

git clone https://github.com/ndaidong/txtgen.git
cd txtgen
npm install
npm test

License

The MIT License (MIT)