Word Counter API

Counts all word occurrence in a web page source. You can visit it here.

Dependencies

1. Node.js (platform)
2. MongoDB (database)
3. npm (package/dependency manager)

How to run local environment

1. Clone this repo.

2. Install MongoDB. https://www.mongodb.com/

3. Run MongoDB server in the background or foreground, whichever you like.

   $ nohup mongod &

4. Navigate to the cloned repository and install dependencies

   $ cd /path/to/repo
   $ npm install

5. Set up environment variables.

   • MONGODB_URI - the URI for the MongoDB instance
   • PORT - For Node.js projects, port 3000 is commonly used.
   • DEBUG - set to true if on local environment

6. Install nodemon globally if you haven't yet.

   $ npm install nodemon -g

7. Fire up the application.

   $ nodemon

How to use

Just provide the API with the url and word parameter. The request should look like this:

https://node-wordcounterapi.herokuapp.com/wordcount?url=http://virtusize.jp&word=fit

Note

New query result will be saved to a MongoDB database for faster access.