How can I parse text and find all instances of hyperlinks with a string? The hyperlink will not be in the html format of <a href="http://test.com">test</a> but just http://test.com
Secondly, I would like to then convert the original string and replace all instances of hyperlinks into clickable html hyperlinks.
I found an example in this thread:
Easiest way to convert a URL to a hyperlink in a C# string?
but was unable to reproduce it in python :(
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Answer
Here’s a Python port of Easiest way to convert a URL to a hyperlink in a C# string?:
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import re2
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myString = "This is my tweet check it out http://tinyurl.com/blah"4
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r = re.compile(r"(http://[^ ]+)")6
print r.sub(r'<a href="1">1</a>', myString)7
Output:
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This is my tweet check it out <a href="http://tinyurl.com/blah">http://tinyurl.com/blah</a>2