Twitter-text: libraries for identifying URLs, at mentions, hashtags in text

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32 points·lewisl9029··7 comments

I wrote a hashtag extractor for a project am working but I have to admit that I am particularly impressed with the robustness of the regex! I am definitely going to use some aspects of this code.

Is it possible to do something like this with PostgreSQL's full text search? When I convert a search query containing an @mention or #hashtag with to_tsvector, I get matches for strings that aren't preceeded by # or @.

Have been using the Js version for around 2 years to display tweets that we fetched from twitter api. If you have a similar use case, definately look into these.

Does twitter api matter anymore? I stopped using it a while back. I think stuff like this is helpful to businesses who buy their data.

I found twitter-text useful for linkifying URLs in a chat application (not related to Twitter) that I built a couple of years ago.

The URL extraction functions are quite robust and handled the task well. This library has use cases beyond just parsing Twitter tweets.

Yep. This is exactly the use case I had in mind when I was looking for a library like this. These features are useful in all kinds of social/chat apps that need to convert users' plaintext messages into rich multimedia content.

Identifying things in plaintext is one of those things that seems very simple but ends up being a pain to get right if you want it to be robust enough to handle all the corner cases.

There's a reason why this library has over 2k commits! I'd hate to have to rediscover all the lessons they must have learned the hard way...

Doesn't the API already expose these as fields? https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/show/%3A...

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