@orestisrodriguez/urlize

urlize
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An urlize module for Node.js. Turns a string into a string that can be used more easily as an URL.

1. Turns everything into lowercase
- Removes accents: äöå -> aoa
- Removes other characters than (i.e. keeps the following characters): a-z 0-9 . _ - ( ) /
- Trims the string

##usage

npm install git://github.com/ile/urlize.git

> var urlize = require('urlize').urlize;

> urlize(" ääliö älä lyö, ööliä läikkyy");
> // aalio-ala-lyo-oolia-laikkyy

##drawbacks

Doesn't handle many foreign characters. Handles some.