UPDATES MOVED TO https://github.com/torantine/obsidian-snippets#across-vault-word-count

dataviewjs.wordcountfromtag

# Get Word Count from Tagged Pages

## Search Tag

tagToSearchFor:: anotherTag

^ This inline metadata field is used as the tag that dataview searches the vault for. Write the name of the tag without the hash in front or `null` for all pages in your vault. You can use MetaEdit to change search term in preview mode. Search by other fields soon to come!

---

## Exported Chart Data (requires MetaEdit)

pages::
modified::
words::
characters::
sentences::

---

Sorting is done by the Sortable Plugin. Modified Date does not work currently.

```dataviewjs
//v 0.0.6 - added mdate to the table and exporting values to inline values (requires MetaEdit)
// thanks to Luke Leppan and the Better Word Count plugin
function getWordCount(text) {
    // Thanks to liamcane
    var spaceDelimitedChars = /A-Za-z\u00AA\u00B5\u00BA\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00F6\u00F8-\u02C1\u02C6-\u02D1\u02E0-\u02E4\u02EC\u02EE\u0370-\u0374\u0376\u0377\u037A-\u037D\u037F\u0386\u0388-\u038A\u038C\u038E-\u03A1\u03A3-\u03F5\u03F7-\u0481\u048A-\u052F\u0531-\u0556\u0559\u0561-\u0587\u05D0-\u05EA\u05F0-\u05F2\u0620-\u064A\u066E\u066F\u0671-\u06D3\u06D5\u06E5\u06E6\u06EE\u06EF\u06FA-\u06FC\u06FF\u0710\u0712-\u072F\u074D-\u07A5\u07B1\u07CA-\u07EA\u07F4\u07F5\u07FA\u0800-\u0815\u081A\u0824\u0828\u0840-\u0858\u08A0-\u08B4\u0904-\u0939\u093D\u0950\u0958-\u0961\u0971-\u0980\u0985-\u098C\u098F\u0990\u0993-\u09A8\u09AA-\u09B0\u09B2\u09B6-\u09B9\u09BD\u09CE\u09DC\u09DD\u09DF-\u09E1\u09F0\u09F1\u0A05-\u0A0A\u0A0F\u0A10\u0A13-\u0A28\u0A2A-\u0A30\u0A32\u0A33\u0A35\u0A36\u0A38\u0A39\u0A59-\u0A5C\u0A5E\u0A72-\u0A74\u0A85-\u0A8D\u0A8F-\u0A91\u0A93-\u0AA8\u0AAA-\u0AB0\u0AB2\u0AB3\u0AB5-\u0AB9\u0ABD\u0AD0\u0AE0\u0AE1\u0AF9\u0B05-\u0B0C\u0B0F\u0B10\u0B13-\u0B28\u0B2A-\u0B30\u0B32\u0B33\u0B35-\u0B39\u0B3D\u0B5C\u0B5D\u0B5F-\u0B61\u0B71\u0B83\u0B85-\u0B8A\u0B8E-\u0B90\u0B92-\u0B95\u0B99\u0B9A\u0B9C\u0B9E\u0B9F\u0BA3\u0BA4\u0BA8-\u0BAA\u0BAE-\u0BB9\u0BD0\u0C05-\u0C0C\u0C0E-\u0C10\u0C12-\u0C28\u0C2A-\u0C39\u0C3D\u0C58-\u0C5A\u0C60\u0C61\u0C85-\u0C8C\u0C8E-\u0C90\u0C92-\u0CA8\u0CAA-\u0CB3\u0CB5-\u0CB9\u0CBD\u0CDE\u0CE0\u0CE1\u0CF1\u0CF2\u0D05-\u0D0C\u0D0E-\u0D10\u0D12-\u0D3A\u0D3D\u0D4E\u0D5F-\u0D61\u0D7A-\u0D7F\u0D85-\u0D96\u0D9A-\u0DB1\u0DB3-\u0DBB\u0DBD\u0DC0-\u0DC6\u0E01-\u0E30\u0E32\u0E33\u0E40-\u0E46\u0E81\u0E82\u0E84\u0E87\u0E88\u0E8A\u0E8D\u0E94-\u0E97\u0E99-\u0E9F\u0EA1-\u0EA3\u0EA5\u0EA7\u0EAA\u0EAB\u0EAD-\u0EB0\u0EB2\u0EB3\u0EBD\u0EC0-\u0EC4\u0EC6\u0EDC-\u0EDF\u0F00\u0F40-\u0F47\u0F49-\u0F6C\u0F88-\u0F8C\u1000-\u102A\u103F\u1050-\u1055\u105A-\u105D\u1061\u1065\u1066\u106E-\u1070\u1075-\u1081\u108E\u10A0-\u10C5\u10C7\u10CD\u10D0-\u10FA\u10FC-\u1248\u124A-\u124D\u1250-\u1256\u1258\u125A-\u125D\u1260-\u1288\u128A-\u128D\u1290-\u12B0\u12B2-\u12B5\u12B8-\u12BE\u12C0\u12C2-\u12C5\u12C8-\u12D6\u12D8-\u1310\u1312-\u1315\u1318-\u135A\u1380-\u138F\u13A0-\u13F5\u13F8-\u13FD\u1401-\u166C\u166F-\u167F\u1681-\u169A\u16A0-\u16EA\u16F1-\u16F8\u1700-\u170C\u170E-\u1711\u1720-\u1731\u1740-\u1751\u1760-\u176C\u176E-\u1770\u1780-\u17B3\u17D7\u17DC\u1820-\u1877\u1880-\u18A8\u18AA\u18B0-\u18F5\u1900-\u191E\u1950-\u196D\u1970-\u1974\u1980-\u19AB\u19B0-\u19C9\u1A00-\u1A16\u1A20-\u1A54\u1AA7\u1B05-\u1B33\u1B45-\u1B4B\u1B83-\u1BA0\u1BAE\u1BAF\u1BBA-\u1BE5\u1C00-\u1C23\u1C4D-\u1C4F\u1C5A-\u1C7D\u1CE9-\u1CEC\u1CEE-\u1CF1\u1CF5\u1CF6\u1D00-\u1DBF\u1E00-\u1F15\u1F18-\u1F1D\u1F20-\u1F45\u1F48-\u1F4D\u1F50-\u1F57\u1F59\u1F5B\u1F5D\u1F5F-\u1F7D\u1F80-\u1FB4\u1FB6-\u1FBC\u1FBE\u1FC2-\u1FC4\u1FC6-\u1FCC\u1FD0-\u1FD3\u1FD6-\u1FDB\u1FE0-\u1FEC\u1FF2-\u1FF4\u1FF6-\u1FFC\u2071\u207F\u2090-\u209C\u2102\u2107\u210A-\u2113\u2115\u2119-\u211D\u2124\u2126\u2128\u212A-\u212D\u212F-\u2139\u213C-\u213F\u2145-\u2149\u214E\u2183\u2184\u2C00-\u2C2E\u2C30-\u2C5E\u2C60-\u2CE4\u2CEB-\u2CEE\u2CF2\u2CF3\u2D00-\u2D25\u2D27\u2D2D\u2D30-\u2D67\u2D6F\u2D80-\u2D96\u2DA0-\u2DA6\u2DA8-\u2DAE\u2DB0-\u2DB6\u2DB8-\u2DBE\u2DC0-\u2DC6\u2DC8-\u2DCE\u2DD0-\u2DD6\u2DD8-\u2DDE\u2E2F\u3005\u3006\u3031-\u3035\u303B\u303C\u3105-\u312D\u3131-\u318E\u31A0-\u31BA\u31F0-\u31FF\u3400-\u4DB5\uA000-\uA48C\uA4D0-\uA4FD\uA500-\uA60C\uA610-\uA61F\uA62A\uA62B\uA640-\uA66E\uA67F-\uA69D\uA6A0-\uA6E5\uA717-\uA71F\uA722-\uA788\uA78B-\uA7AD\uA7B0-\uA7B7\uA7F7-\uA801\uA803-\uA805\uA807-\uA80A\uA80C-\uA822\uA840-\uA873\uA882-\uA8B3\uA8F2-\uA8F7\uA8FB\uA8FD\uA90A-\uA925\uA930-\uA946\uA960-\uA97C\uA984-\uA9B2\uA9CF\uA9E0-\uA9E4\uA9E6-\uA9EF\uA9FA-\uA9FE\uAA00-\uAA28\uAA40-\uAA42\uAA44-\uAA4B\uAA60-\uAA76\uAA7A\uAA7E-\uAAAF\uAAB1\uAAB5\uAAB6\uAAB9-\uAABD\uAAC0\uAAC2\uAADB-\uAADD\uAAE0-\uAAEA\uAAF2-\uAAF4\uAB01-\uAB06\uAB09-\uAB0E\uAB11-\uAB16\uAB20-\uAB26\uAB28-\uAB2E\uAB30-\uAB5A\uAB5C-\uAB65\uAB70-\uABE2\uAC00-\uD7A3\uD7B0-\uD7C6\uD7CB-\uD7FB\uF900-\uFA6D\uFA70-\uFAD9\uFB00-\uFB06\uFB13-\uFB17\uFB1D\uFB1F-\uFB28\uFB2A-\uFB36\uFB38-\uFB3C\uFB3E\uFB40\uFB41\uFB43\uFB44\uFB46-\uFBB1\uFBD3-\uFD3D\uFD50-\uFD8F\uFD92-\uFDC7\uFDF0-\uFDFB\uFE70-\uFE74\uFE76-\uFEFC\uFF21-\uFF3A\uFF41-\uFF5A\uFF66-\uFFBE\uFFC2-\uFFC7\uFFCA-\uFFCF\uFFD2-\uFFD7\uFFDA-\uFFDC/
        .source;
    var nonSpaceDelimitedWords = /[\u3041-\u3096\u309D-\u309F\u30A1-\u30FA\u30FC-\u30FF\u4E00-\u9FD5]{1}/
        .source;
    var pattern = new RegExp([
        "(?:[0-9]+(?:(?:,|\\.)[0-9]+)*|[\\-" + spaceDelimitedChars + "])+",
        nonSpaceDelimitedWords,
    ].join("|"), "g");
    return (text.match(pattern) || []).length;
}
function getCharacterCount(text) {
    return text.length;
}
function getSentenceCount(text) {
    // Thanks to Extract Highlights plugin and AngelusDomini
    // Also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5553410
	var sentences = ((text || "").match(/[^.。!！?？\s][^.。!！?？]*(?:[.!?](?!['‘’"“”「」『』]?\s|$)[^.。!！?？]*)*[.。!！?？]?['’"”」』]?(?=\s||$)/gm) || []);
	var sentencesLength = sentences.length;
	return sentencesLength;
}

let searchField = dv.pages().where(f => f.file.path == dv.current().file.path).tagToSearchFor; // gets value of "tagToSearchFor" inline field from this file

let searchTerm = "#"+searchField.values.toString(); // value of "tagToSearchFor"

searchTerm === "#" ? searchTerm = "" : searchTerm = searchTerm

let searchPagePaths = dv.pages(searchTerm).file.path; // paths of all pages with tagToSearchFor

let allNames = new Array();
let allWordCount = new Array();
let allCharCount = new Array();
let allSentenceCount = new Array();
let allMdate = new Array();

const getTableContents = () => {
	let name = new Array();
	let text = new Array();
	let mtime = new Array();
	let output = new Array()

	// fill text and name with values
	for(let i=0; i < searchPagePaths.length;i++){
		let page = this.app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(searchPagePaths.values[i]);
		page.unsafeCachedData != null ? mtime.push(page.stat.mtime) : null;
		page.unsafeCachedData != null ? name.push("[["+page.basename+"]]") : null;
		page.unsafeCachedData != null ? text.push(page.unsafeCachedData) : null;
	};
	
	mtime.forEach((date, index) => {
		var d = new Date(date),
        month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
        day = '' + d.getDate(),
        year = d.getFullYear();

		if (month.length < 2) 
        	month = '0' + month;
		if (day.length < 2) 
        	day = '0' + day;

    	mtime[index] = [year, month, day].join('-');
	})

	
	// do word, character, and sentence count on pages and format for dv.table
	for(let i=0; i<text.length;i++){
		// https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-count-a-number-of-words-in-given-string-in-javascript
		text[i] = text[i].replace(/(^\\s\*)|(\\s\*$)/gi,""); // remove the start and end spaces of the given string
		text[i] = text[i].replace(/\[ \]{2,}/gi," "); // reduce multiple spaces to a single space
		text[i] = text[i].replace(/\\n /,"\\n"); // exclude a new line with a start spacing
		let wordCount = getWordCount(text[i]) - 1;
		let characterCount = getCharacterCount(text[i]) - searchTerm.length;
		let sentenceCount = getSentenceCount(text[i]);

		allNames.push([name[i]])
		allWordCount.push([wordCount]);
		allCharCount.push([characterCount]);
		allSentenceCount.push([sentenceCount]);
		allMdate.push(mtime[i])


		output.push([[name[i]].toString(), mtime[i], [wordCount].toString(), [characterCount].toString(), [sentenceCount].toString()]); // array with link to file, word count, character count, and sentence count
		};
		return output;
	}

	dv.table(["Page", "Modified On", "Words",  "Characters", "Sentences"], getTableContents()
	)

// ========== Send Values To Metadata on Page ==========

const thisFile = dv.pages().where(f => f.file.path == dv.current().file.path).file.path

const {update} = this.app.plugins.plugins["metaedit"].api;
const buttonMaker = () => {
    const btn = this.container.createEl('button', {"text": "Update Inline Fields"});
    const file = this.app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(thisFile)
	let pn = ["modified", "pages", "words", "characters", "sentences"];
	let pv = [allMdate, allNames, allWordCount, allCharCount, allSentenceCount];
	btn.addEventListener('click', async (evt) => {
        evt.preventDefault();
		for(let i = 0; i < pv.length;i++){
			await update(pn[i], pv[i].join(", "), file);
		}
	});
	
    return btn;
}
dv.paragraph("You can update inline fields with the values in the chart by pressing this button:<br><br>")
dv.paragraph(buttonMaker())
dv.paragraph("<br><br>Use the following inline fields:<br>Page Link = pages::<br>Modified Date = modified::<br>Word Count = words::<br>Character Count = characters::<br>Sentence Count = sentences::")
```

Dataview JS Snippet - Get Word Count from Tagged Pages

This snippet is code to be used with the dataview plugin in Obsidian. Given a tag, it will performer a word, character, and sentence count on the pages containing the tag and display it as a table. Thanks to Azulaloi in the Obsidian discord for the idea and Christian for the functionality from the MetaEdit Plugin for Obsidian

v 0.0.2 the search term text in target files is no longer counted
v 0.0.3 fixes non-space-delimited words not being counted. Thanks goes to boniall in the Obsidian discord for pointing out the issue.
v 0.0.4 added 。！？ as defining ends of sentences and ‘ ’ “ ” as characters able to exist after sentence end
v 0.0.5 an empty tagToSearchFor now returns all files
v 0.0.6 added in modified date column and the ability to export to inline fields

Planned Improvements:

• fix sentence count. Always one less than it should be.
• compare tag against existing tags in the vault to shoot error message
• add an option to choose what columns to show
• ability to ignore frontmatter and non-paragraph text on a page
• ability to only count block that tag is in
• add ability to search for other metadata fields
• add ability to have multiple search terms/logic

Bug Fixes

• subtract search term length from the word/character count of pages
• non-space-breaking words not being counted property
• 。！？‘ ’ “ ” do not register as punctuation properly
• If no tag is selected, word and character count are off by -1