Anchorme.js

A library to convert URLs to a click-able HTML anchor elements

Features

Highly sensitive.
produces the least possible false positives if any.
Skips HTML, so it doesn't break your HTML if it had a URL as an attribute for an element.
Links with or without protocols.
Preserve upper and lower case, although when detecting, it's basically case insensitive.
Checks against full IANA list of TLDs.
Works with IPs, FTPs, Emails and files.
Also works when ports are defined.
Small in size.
No RegExp involved, very readable and maintainable.
Supports setting custom attributes with any values.
Supports checking IPs only, Emails only, or URLs only.
Helper methods can be used for other purposes.

Getting Started

Download

File

Download the library from dist folder (either anchorme.js or anchorme.min.js).

NPM

Install via NPM: npm install anchorme

Usage

var anchorme = require("anchorme"); // if installed via NPM

var someText = "this is a text with a link www.github.com ..";
var result = anchorme(someText);

// You can also pass few options

anchorme(someText,{
  attribute:{
    "target":"_blank"
  }
})

Available options

Option key	Default value	Description
`attributes`	`false`	An object of attributes to be added to each anchor tag
`html`	`true`	If you're expecting HTML input, this will make sure that your HTML won't break
`ips`	`true`	Detect IPs
`urls`	`true`	Detect URLs
`email`	`true`	Detect Emails
`truncate`	`0`	Truncate long links
`defaultProtocol`	`"http://"`	Default protocol to be added when no protocol has been defined in the input

Validation

it can also be used for validation:

anchorme.validate.ip("1.1.1.1:3000/something"); // returns true
anchorme.validate.email("[email protected]"); // return true
anchorme.validate.url("google.co.uk"); // returns true