# web-pseudo-localizer 

> **to test your website's localizability**

#### web-pseudo-localizer provides the ability to scrape web pages and convert any text to pseudo-localized characters to test your website's localizability.

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<sample screenshot of a website with text direction 'RTL'>
![Sample web page](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/portfolio-220f7.appspot.com/o/images%2Fpseudolocalized_md.png?alt=media&token=6b62c82d-57dc-47ff-9dab-879673d0457a)

## Install

> npm i web-pseudo-localizer

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

    pseudoLocalizer('http://example.com', {
      prefix: '[',
      suffix: ']',
      expansion: 30,
      bidi: 'rtl',
    });
    
    ------------------------- OR -------------------------------
    
    const pseudoLocalizer = require('web-pseudo-localizer')

    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* (It provides extra white space to test strings in the target language that take up more space than the source language.)

    type:number
    default: 1
    unit: %

*bidi*

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

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