Find URLs, email addresses, #hashtags and @mentions in plain-text strings, then convert them into HTML links.
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.
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);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.
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.
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:
MIT
v4.1.3
& symbol double-encoding in linkify-htmlFAQs
Find URLs, email addresses, #hashtags and @mentions in plain-text strings, then convert them into HTML links.
The npm package linkifyjs receives a total of 800,390 weekly downloads. As such, linkifyjs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that linkifyjs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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