text-url-to-html-link

It's a simple function that fetches all the urls in a string, and transforms them into HTML links (tag )

Install

yarn add text-url-to-html-link

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Get started

const {textUrlToHtmlLink} = require('text-url-to-html-link');
// or
import {textUrlToHtmlLink} from 'text-url-to-html-link'
 
 
 
const myText = `Create Share Links to send your expressions to co-workers or link to them on Twitter or your blog [ex. http://RegExr.com?2rjl6]. Built by gskinner.com with Flex 3 [adobe.com/go/flex] and Spelling Plus Library for text highlighting [gskinner.com/products/spl].`;
 
console.log(textUrlToHtmlLink(myText));

Result with restrictive regex:

Create Share Links to send your expressions to co-workers or link to them on Twitter or your blog [ex. <a href="http://RegExr.com?2rjl6" >http://RegExr.com?2rjl6</a>]. Built by gskinner.com with Flex 3 [adobe.com/go/flex] and Spelling Plus Library for text highlighting [gskinner.com/products/spl].

Result with less restrictive regex:

Create Share Links to send your expressions to co-workers or link to them on Twitter or your blog [ex. <a href="http://RegExr.com?2rjl6" >http://RegExr.com?2rjl6</a>]. Built by <a href="gskinner.com" >gskinner.com</a> with Flex 3 [<a href="adobe.com/go/flex" >adobe.com/go/flex</a>] and Spelling Plus Library for text highlighting [<a href="gskinner.com/products/spl" >gskinner.com/products/spl</a>].

Options

Here is signature:

textUrlToHtmlLink(text, htmlAttrs, restrictive)

• htmlAttrs: an object of a-tag Html attributes
• restrictive: boolean to set restrictive mode