linkifyjs

What is linkifyjs?

The linkifyjs package is a robust tool for finding links in plain text and converting them into clickable HTML hyperlinks. It is useful for enhancing user-generated content where links are not automatically hyperlinked.

What are linkifyjs's main functionalities?

Link Detection

Detects URLs and email addresses in plain text and provides details about them. This feature is useful for applications that need to extract hyperlink information from text.

const linkify = require('linkifyjs');
const text = 'Visit http://example.com for more info.';
const html = linkify.find(text);
console.log(html);

Convert Text to HTML

Converts plain text containing URLs or email addresses into HTML with clickable links. This is particularly useful for rendering user-generated content safely in web applications.

const linkifyHtml = require('linkifyjs/html');
const text = 'See more at http://example.com.';
const linkedText = linkifyHtml(text);
console.log(linkedText);

Other packages similar to linkifyjs

autolinker

Like linkifyjs, autolinker is also designed to automatically convert URLs, email addresses, and Twitter usernames into clickable links in text. It offers additional features like customizing how links are displayed, which might be advantageous depending on the use case.

README

linkifyjs

Core Linkify JavaScript library. Use Linkify and its related packages to detect URLs, email addresses and more in plain-text strings and convert them to HTML <a> anchor tags.

Installation

Install from the command line with NPM

npm install linkifyjs

Import into your JavaScript with require

const linkify = require('linkifyjs');

or with ES modules

import * as linkify from 'linkifyjs';

Separate packages are available for each of the following features:

• HTML strings
• React component
• jQuery plugin
• DOM Elements
• Plain-text
• #hashtag plugin
• @mention plugin
• #ticket plugin
• IP address plugin
• Keyword plugin

Usage

Read the full documentation.

License

MIT

Changelog

v4.3.1

• Use correct simple-html-tokenizer version for linkify-html