web-pseudo-localizer

It provides the ability to scrape your website and converts all texts to pseudo-localized characters to test localizability.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import webPseudoLocalizer from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/web-pseudo-localizer';
</script>

README

web-pseudo-localizer

to test your website's localizability

web-pseudo-localizer provides the ability to scrape web pages and converts all texts to pseudo-localized characters to test your website's localizability.

<sample screenshot of testing a website with text direction 'RTL'> Sample web page

Install

npm i web-pseudo-localizer

Usage

const pseudoLocalizer = require('web-pseudo-localizer')

pseudoLocalizer('http://example.com', {
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']',
  expansion: 30,
  bidi: 'rtl',
});


let options = {
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']',
  expansion: 10,
  bidi: 'ltr',
}
pseudoLocalizer('http://example.com', options);

API

pseudolocalizer(url, options?)

options

type: Object

prefix

type: string
default: '['

suffix

type:string
default: ']'

expansion

type:number
default: 1
unit: %
give extra white space to string to check your website for text expansion

bidi

type: string
default: 'rtl'
text direction: ltr | rtl

Note

Chromium is used as a default browser. The default size of the browser viewport is 800 x 600. To change the viewport in full view mode, open up browser DevTools and click on the Toggle device toolbar: shortcut for windows Ctrl+Shift+J and then Ctrl+Shift+M twice.