Is it possible to add reading time to blog post

[jarrodscott]

Description

Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to add reading time to individual blog posts? The times show up on the listing page but not the posts. Thanks!

[cscheid]

Yes. Go to quarto.org, click on the search button, type "Reading Time", and the first hit is this:

https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html#listing-fields

[jarrodscott]

Thank you @cscheid . I did see that post but it is unclear to me how to get reading time on the individual post page. For example, my listing page looks something like this:

---
title: "Welcome to Quarto "
listing:
  field-display-names:
    title: "Lessons"
  contents: 
    - "lesson-1/index.qmd"
    - "lesson-2/index.qmd"    
  fields: [image, date, title, reading-time, description]  
  sort: "title desc"
  type: default
date-format: long
---

And then for every post a reading time is listed on the landing page. But I cannot figure out how to get reading time displayed on each post. For example, here is the yml header for one of the posts.

---
title: "Lesson 1"
author: "me"
description: |
  In this lesson we go through the steps for creating your first site. 
date: "2024-01-03"
categories: [news, code, analysis]
image: "files/feature.png"
reading-time: true
---

Here I get author, description, title,and date but no reading time. For the record I am using the most up-to-date versions of Quarto, RStudio and R :)

[mcanouil]

Currently, I don't think there is a simple way to add reading time outside of the listing itself.
@dragonstyle Could the estimated reading-time be exposed outside of the listing template and accessible via the meta shortcode and/or Lua filter, etc.?

[jonjoncardoso]

I would like that too. I'd be happy even with a potential hack-y way to achieve it.

[younes-io]

hello folks,
anyone found a way around this? :) I'm looking for exactly the same feature: reading time on individual page

[atlhawksfanatic]

I was also looking for an option to display reading time in the blog post itself.

[dullbananas]

I want to be able to include an estimate of the total reading time of a book on the first page

[arjunbazinga]

+1 would love to have this, thanks!

[dvquy13]

+1 thanks