dgski/string-to-url

Utility to handle strings containing urls

string-to-url

Installation

Install string-to-url into to your project via npm:

$ npm install string-to-url --save-dev

Usage

getUrls -- will give the array of urls present in the string

getHTMLText -- return HTML text converting all links to anchor tags.

 Pass options object with all required properties if needed ex: target, title. e.t.c  
 ex: { target: '__blank' }

example1

//somePage.js
import { getUrls } from 'string-to-url';

console.log(getUrls('abc www.google.com www.apple.com');

output:

["http://www.google.com", "mailto:gmail@gmail.com"]

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example2

//somePage.js
import { getHTMLText } from 'string-to-url';

console.log(getHTMLText('abc www.google.com');

output:

abc <a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a>

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example3

//somePage.js
import { getHTMLText } from 'string-to-url';

console.log(getHTMLText('abc www.google.com', { target: '__blank' });

output:

abc <a target="__blank" href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a>

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