Intelligent URL parser
npm install my-name-is-urlIntelligently recognises many different url formats in a string. For the browser and node. Here, have a play.
my-name-is-url was created because I couldn't find a parser with a high enough success rate. The url spec is so vague that many strings _could_ be a url, therefore matching the spec directly results in a lot of false positives. Most parsers get around this by requiring a url to contain a scheme to be matched as a url.
The regular expression used in my-name-is-url tries to match patterns likely to represent a url in a sentence rather than matching the actual url spec. This results in a much wider scope of matchable urls than most other parsers without introducing loads of false positives.
> ❗️Important note
>
> If you're trying to parse a url into sections (scheme,host) or check a url is valid this module isn't for you. This module is intended to find urls in a string.
``shell`
npm install --save my-name-is-url
or
`shell`
jspm install my-name-is-url
`js
import Urls from 'my-name-is-url';
const getText = 'Check out these sites: foobar.com,//foo.ninja,http://bar.com.';
Urls(getText).get();
// [ 'foobar.com', '//foo.ninja', 'http://bar.com' ]
const filterText = 'My GitHub profile: https://github.com/lukechilds';
Urls(filterText).filter(url => ${url});`
// 'My GitHub profile: https://github.com/lukechilds'
CommonJS
`js`
var Urls = require('my-name-is-url');
ES6
`js`
import Urls from 'my-name-is-url';
If you just wanna do your own thing the regex used internally is helpfully exposed.
`js`
var urlRegex = require('my-name-is-url').regex;
or
`js`
import { regex as urlRegex } from 'my-name-is-url';
The regex used internally for matching urls.
Returns an array of url matches. If there are no matches an empty array will be returned.
`js
const text = 'Check out these sites: foobar.com,//foo.ninja,http://bar.com.';
Urls(text).get();
// [ 'foobar.com', '//foo.ninja', 'http://bar.com' ]
`
Runs a filter callback on each url in a string.
#### cb
Required
Type: function
`js
const text = 'My GitHub profile: https://github.com/lukechilds';
Urls(text).filter(url => ${url});`
// 'My GitHub profile: https://github.com/lukechilds'
> 👍 Pro tip
>
> You can get a parser instance by calling Urls() or new Urls`, whichever you prefer.
MIT © Luke Childs