twitter-text

A gem that provides text processing routines for Twitter Tweets. The major reason for this is to unify the various auto-linking and extraction of usernames, lists, hashtags and URLs.

Extraction Examples

# Extraction
class MyClass
  include Twitter::Extractor
  usernames = extract_mentioned_screen_names("Mentioning @twitter and @jack")
  # usernames = ["twitter", "jack"]
end

# Extraction with a block argument
class MyClass
  include Twitter::Extractor
  extract_reply_screen_name("@twitter are you hiring?").do |username|
    # username = "twitter"
  end
end

Auto-linking Examples

# Auto-link
class MyClass
  include Twitter::Autolink

  html = auto_link("link @user, please #request")
end

Usernames

Username extraction and linking matches all valid Twitter usernames but does not verify that the username is a valid Twitter account.

Lists

Auto-link and extract list names when they are written in @user/list-name format.

Hashtags

Auto-link and extract hashtags, where a hashtag contains any latin letter or number but cannot be solely numbers.

URLs

Auto-linking and extraction of URLs differs from the Rails default so that it will work correctly in Tweets written in languages that do not include spaces between words.

International

Special care has been taken to be sure that auto-linking and extraction work in Tweets of all languages. This means that languages without spaces between words should work equally well.

Conformance

To run the Conformance suite, you’ll need to add that project as a git submodule. From the root twitter-text-rb directory, run:

git submodule add git@github.com:mzsanford/twitter-text-conformance.git test/twitter-text-conformance/
git submodule init
git submodule update