[ville]

I found twitter-text useful for linkifying URLs in a chat application (not related to Twitter) that I built a couple of years ago.

The URL extraction functions are quite robust and handled the task well. This library has use cases beyond just parsing Twitter tweets.

[lewisl9029]

Yep. This is exactly the use case I had in mind when I was looking for a library like this. These features are useful in all kinds of social/chat apps that need to convert users' plaintext messages into rich multimedia content.

Identifying things in plaintext is one of those things that seems very simple but ends up being a pain to get right if you want it to be robust enough to handle all the corner cases.

There's a reason why this library has over 2k commits! I'd hate to have to rediscover all the lessons they must have learned the hard way...