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Life & fun · December 15, 2013

Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be of interest

Find Dates, Places, Times, and More. A .js library for parsing text for specific information. - benhmoore/Knwl

Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be of interest launched on December 15, 2013 with 43 votes, #392 of 927 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Knwl.js is a JavaScript library that scans text to extract specific types of information such as dates, places, and times. Developers can use it to automatically parse and identify relevant data points from unstructured text. The library is hosted on GitHub and designed for applications that need to process text for particular information patterns.

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