word-link

Word Link

Allows you to convert specific words into links. Inspired by Drupal module word_link.

This can be useful for crossposting your site's pages, or for the contextual advertising of your partners (SEO).

Installation

• Latest release
• Bower: bower install word-link
• NPM: npm install word-link

Usage

WordLink.apply(text, word|regexp, url, opts);

	Argument	Type	Default	Details
1	text	String		Text in which you want to replace the word to word-links.
2	word	String		A String or RegExp that is to be replaced by word-link.
3	url	String		A URL to be used to generate a word-link.
4	opts	Dictionary		(optional) Additional seetings.
	opts.debug	Boolean	false	(optional) Enable debugging mode. Shows a console.log with replaced words.
	opts.excludedTags	Array	['H1', 'H2', 'H3', 'H4', 'H5', 'H6']	(optional) List of HTML tags to be ignored during replacement.
	opts.attributes	Object	{}	(optional) Additional attributes for a link.

Returns

Type: String

Text with replaced word-links.

Examples

var WordLink = require('word-link');
var text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.";

Replace words with a link:

WordLink.apply(text, 'ipsum', 'http://example.com');
// "Lorem <a href="http://example.com">ipsum</a> dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit."

Find words with regex and replace them with a link:

WordLink.apply(text, '(ipsum|elit)', 'http://example.com');
// "Lorem <a href="http://example.com">ipsum</a> dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing <a href="http://example.com">elit</a>."

Word Link understands html. It will ignore existed links and tag attributes:

var html = '<p>Lorem <a href="http://ipsum.com" class="ipsum">ipsum</a> dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>';

WordLink.apply(html, 'ipsum', 'http://example.com');
// "<p>Lorem <a href="http://ipsum.com" class="ipsum">ipsum</a> dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>"

TODOs

• A setting for tags to be ignored.
• Additional attributes for a link.
• Add tests.
• Nodejs version.