WordRank

Mongodb Caching Server to provide nodejs module for http://www.wordandphrase.info/frequencylist.asp

• Input: English Word
• Output: Rank (commonality)
  • ie. Higher Number => Rarer Word.

Build

git clone https://github.com/ptraverse/wordrank.git
cd wordrank
npm update
sudo npm start
sudo npm stop

Example

In other words, "banana" is the 4,721st word in rarity in the "common" english language.

Demo

build and use demo.html

Mongodb Init

/* Start MongoDB server using conf file and add mongodb-rest for crud */ mongod -f ./mongod.conf && ./node_modules/mongodb-rest/bin/mongodb-rest

/* CLI Instructions */ mongo

/* Create if needed and use wordrank db */ use wordrank

/* Create wordrank collection */ db.words.insert( { word: "the", rank: "1" } )

Moonshots

• Full sentences
• Adding all the other info:
• Part of speech
• Rarity Overall/by Source ** { Spoken, Fiction, Magazines, Newspaper, Academic }
• Correlates / Synonyms
• Rarity "Category"
• Single/Multi Entry!? (homonyms, other definitions)
• Human Readable Definition
• Grammar
• Matrix - comparisons

Invoke Scrape via PhantomJS Directly on cli

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js foobar

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js aquatic
8355

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js the
1

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js archaic
13544

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js serendipity
24935

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js alphanumerical

philippe@ubuntu64:~/workspace/wordrank$ ./node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs ./scratch.js alphabet
9387

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Notes

/* post install mongo make db folder */ sudo mkdir -p /data/db chown whoami /data/db

/* mongodaemon start */ mongod -f ./mongod.conf && ./node_modules/mongodb-rest/bin/mongodb-rest

/* CLI / mongo / Create if needed and use wordrank db */

use wordrank

/* Create wordrank collection */ db.words.insert( { word: "ornithology", rank: "123456" } )