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by lewisl9029 4029 days ago
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...