jQuery AutoLink

jQuery AutoLink is a jQuery plugin for automatically converting text containing URLs, mentions (for Twitter, Instagram, GitHub, or a locally hosted site) and hashtags (for Twitter or a locally hosted site) into URLs. It automatically transforms plain text URLs, mentions, & hashtags into clickable URLs.

Changes

This fork (@MarQuisKnox/jQuery.AutoLink) of Linky has the following changes:

1. Adds the option to link locally
   
2. Adds the option to specify the href target
   
3. Adds e-mail autolinking
   
4. Fixes YouTube Embeds
   
5. Fixes URL RegEx
   
6. Matches URLs w/ Parameters
   
7. Matches all TLDs except for those w/ unicode characters

Usage

The only dependency is jQuery.

All you have to do is include jquery.autolink.js or jquery.autolink.min.js just after you've included jQuery and you're all set.

Options

Option	Default	Type	Description
emails	true	boolean	Identify if e-mail addresses should be linkified.
mentions	true	boolean	Identify if mentions should be linkified.
hashtags	false	boolean	Identify if hashtags should be linkified.
urls	true	boolean	Identify if URLs should be linkified.
linkTo	"twitter"	string	Identify location mentions and hashtags should link to.

Example

jQuery AutoLink would come in handy if you are pulling data from any of Twitter's or Instagram's APIs where you will end up having just a plain text string like below:

@andreassavvides works on his #opensource projects over at https://github.com/AnSavvides

If you are displaying this information in your UI, you would want to linkify any mentions, hashtags and/or URLs. Linky does exactly that, giving you control over what you want linkified. In this case, let's linkify everything given a div containing the aforementioned tweet:

<div class="status">
    @andreassavvides works on his #opensource projects over at https://github.com/AnSavvides        
</div>

$(".status").autolink({
    mentions: true,
    hashtags: true,
    urls: true,
    linkTo: "local"
});

This would transform the div's content to the following:

<div class="url">
    <a href="https://twitter.com/andreassavvides" target="_blank">@andreassavvides</a> works on his <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=opensource" target="_blank">#opensource</a> projects over at <a href="https://github.com/AnSavvides" target="_blank">https://github.com/AnSavvides</a>
</div>

Have a look at examples.html for more examples.

Tests

Unit testing is done using QUnit; all tests can be found under the tests folder.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome; just fork the repository, make your changes and open a pull request. Don't forget to add tests if applicable!

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 - 2015 Andreas Savvides
Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017 MarQuis Knox

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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