SpeakingURL
Generate a slug with a lot of options; create a so-called Semantic URL or 'Clean URL' or 'Pretty URL' or 'nice-looking URL' or 'Speaking URL' or 'user-friendly URL' or 'SEO-friendly URL' from a string. This module aims to transliterate the input string.
For use in browser and server - no dependencies!
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Installation
npm
npm install speakingurl --save
yarn
yarn add speakingurl --dev
Bower
bower install --save speakingurl
Component
component install pid/speakingurl
Ruby on Rails
# Add to Gemfile
Download Package
copy the file speakingurl.min.js to your script directory
CDN/cloudflare
available versions:
- www.cdnjs.com/libraries/speakingurl/
- use //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/speakingurl/13.0.0/speakingurl.min.js
CDN/maxcdn
available versions:
Usage
getSlug(input, [options]);
input
: {string} to convert
options
{object|string} config object or separator string (see below)
-
options
{object}separator
{string} default: '-'- char that replaces the whitespaces
lang
{string|boolean} default: 'en' // ISO 639-1 Codes- language specific transliteration (
- 'ar' // Arabic
- 'az' // Azerbaijani*
- 'cs' // Czech
- 'de' // German
- 'dv' // Divehi
- 'en' // English
- 'es' // Spanish
- 'fa' // Persian
- 'fi' // Finnish
- 'fr' // French
- 'ge' // Georgian
- 'gr' // Greek*
- 'hu' // Hungarian
- 'it' // Italian
- 'lt' // Lithuanian*
- 'lv' // Latvian
- 'my' // Burmese
- 'mk' // Macedonian*
- 'nl' // Dutch
- 'pl' // Polish
- 'pt' // Portuguese
- 'ro' // Romanian
- 'ru' // Russian
- 'sv' // Swedish
- 'sk' // Slovak
- 'sr' // Serbian*
- 'tr' // Turkish
- 'uk' // Ukranian
- 'vn' // Vietnamese
- language specific transliteration (
symbols
{boolean} default: true- false -> don't convert symbols
- true -> convert symbols according to the 'lang' setting
maintainCase
{boolean} default: false- true -> maintain case chars
- false -> convert all chars to lower case
titleCase
{boolean|array} default: false- true -> convert input string to title-case
- array -> titlecase = true, but omit the words from in the array
truncate
{number} default: 0- 0 -> don't trim length
- >= 1 -> trim to max length while not breaking any words
uric
{boolean} default: false- true -> additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "$", ",", "/"
- false
uricNoSlash
{boolean} default: false- true -> additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "$", ","
mark
{boolean} default: false- true -> additionally allow chars: "-", "_", ".", "!", "~", "*", "'", "(", ")"
custom
{object|array} default: {}- object -> custom map for translation, overwrites all i.e. { '&': '#', '*': ' star ' }
- array -> add chars to allowed charMap (see example)
-
options
{string} separator
notes: default only Base64 chars are allowed (/A-Za-z0-9_-/), setting uric
, uricNoSlash
or/and mark
to true
will add the specified chars to the list of allowed characters. The separator-character is always allowed.
Node.js
var getSlug = ;
Browser
Ruby on Rails
# Add to application.js //=
Examples
var slug; slug = ;console; // Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen-bel-ete slug = ;console; // Output: schoener*titel*laesst*gruessen*bel*ete slug = ;console; // Output: schoener_titel_laesst_gruessen_bel_ete slug = ;console; // Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen?-bel-ete slug = ;console; // Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen?-bel-ete slug = ;console; // Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen!-bel-ete-! slug = ;console; // Output: schoener-titel slug = ;console; // Output: Schoener-Titel-laesst-gruessen-Bel-ete slug = ;console; // Output: aepfel-und-birnen slug = ;console; // Output: myanma-thadak slug = ;console; // Output: miadhakee hd reethi dvhkv slug = ;console; // Output: apple-and-pear slug = ;console; // Output: foo-doo-bar-baz slug = ;console; // Output: foo-love-bar slug = ;console; // Output: foo-and-bar-or-(baz)-boo-doo slug = ;console; // Output: foo-und-bar-baz slug = ;console; // Output: [knoepfe] slug = ;console; // Output: nexus-4-only-usd299 slug = ;console; // Output: NEXUS-4-only-EUR299 slug = ;console; // Output: Don-t-Drink-And-Drive slug = ;console; // Output: Don-t-Drink-and-Drive slug = ;console; // Output: foo-bar-foo-bar slug = ;console; // Output: foo-bar-foo-bar slug = ;console; // Output: a
createSlug([options])
options
: {object|string} config object or separator string (see above)
Create your own specially configured function.
var options = maintainCase: true separator: '_' ; var mySlug = ;// in browser:// var mySlug = createSlug(options); var slug = ;console; // Output: Schoener_Titel_laesst_gruessen_Bel_ete
Create your own specially configured function with title-case feature.
var options = titleCase: "a""an""and""as""at""but" "by""en""for""if""in""nor" "of""on""or""per""the""to""vs" ; var mySlug = ;// in browser:// var mySlug = createSlug(options); var slug = ;console; // Output: Welcome-to-the-Jungle
Changelog
see CHANGELOG.md
Tests
npm test
Contribution
# fork pid/speakingurl on Github $ git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_USER>/speakingurl.git$ cd speakingurl$ npm install# add your stuff # add tests # add example for new feature # add release info to CHANGELOG.md # add description/example to README.md $ gulp$ commit files # if everything works fine, commit, push to your repository # create pull request
Release
$ gulp bumpup --patch # --minor # --major $ gulp$ gulp release
Release to RubyGems.org
$ gulp$ gem build speakingurl-rails.gemspec$ gem push speakingurl-rails-x.x.x.gem
References
Use in other environments
Ports
- Java https://github.com/Weltraumschaf/speakingurl thanks to@Weltraumschaf
Credits
License
The BSD 3-Clause License (BSD3)
Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Sascha Droste pid@posteo.net All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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