Human-Readable Identifiers

Using words to identify datasets (instead of numbers) provides various advantages when humans are involved, ie increased distinction and rememberability.

Human-ID generates readable strings by chaining common short words of the english language in a semi-meaningful way. The result is concatenated of adjective + noun + verb resulting in a minimum pool size of 15 000 000 possible combinations.

• SFW: no bad words; family friendly results
• No dependencies

Examples

• FortyGhostsTalk
• CalmSnailsDream
• TastyRocksSparkle
• HealthyCowsSmile
• AfraidWallsExist
• StrangeCarsRush
• TwoLizardsSing
• HappyLionsJump

Install

Yarn

yarn add human-id

NPM

npm install human-id

Usage

Command line

npx human-id
# RareGeckosJam

npx human-id lowercase + 2x
# rare+geckos+jam
# healthy+cows+smile

Programmatic

import {humanId, poolSize, minLength, maxLength} from 'human-id'

// RareGeckosJam
humanId()

// Rare~Geckos~Jam
// alias for { separator: '~' }
humanId('~')

// rare-geckos-jam
humanId({
  separator: '-',
  capitalize: false,
})

poolSize()  // 15,000,000
minLength() //          8
maxLength() //         19

Extended Pool Size

For most cases, the default pool size should be large enough. However, the options adjectiveCount and addAdverb can be utilized to increase the pool size for the price of the string length.

const options = {
  adjectiveCount: 2,
  addAdverb: true,
  separator: '.'
}

humanId(options)   // Ten.Wet.Files.Cheer.Lazily
poolSize(options)  // 630,000,000
minLength(options) //          20
maxLength(options) //          41

Executable arguments

Use the following arguments to modify the default options or print multiple results.

| Argument | Effect | | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | a, adverb, addAdverb | Sets option.addAdverb to true | | l, lower, lowercase | Sets option.capitalize to false | | space | Sets option.separator to an empty space | | any number | Sets option.adjectiveCount to the given integer | | any single character | Sets option.separator to the character | | any number followed by x | Repeats the output number times |

Example

npx human-id adverb lower 2 _ 3x
# clever_shaggy_memes_sit_quietly
# cuddly_spicy_boxes_wave_politely
# sweet_fair_wombats_fetch_bravely

API

humanId(options?: string | Option): string

Generates a human ID. Options can be a string (separator), a boolean (capitalize) or an Options object of:

• separator string = '' - Separates the words from each other
• capitalize boolean = true - Whether to transform the first character of each word to upper case
• adjectiveCount number = 1 - How many adjectives to return
• addAdverb boolean = false - Adds a fourth part to the id

This function is also available as the default export

poolSize(options?: string | Option): number

Returns the number of possible combinations for a given set of options.

minLength(options?: Option): number

The length of the shortest possible id for a given set of options.

maxLength(options?: Option): number

The length of the longest possible id for a given set of options.

adjectives: string[]

List of possible values for the first part of the human id.

nouns: string[]

List of possible values for the second part of the human id.

verbs: string[]

List of possible values for the third part of the human id.

adverbs: string[]

List of possible values for the optional fourth part of the human id.