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Twitter precompiled regular expressions

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Some regular expressions extracted from twitter-text package and optimized with regexp-tree.

The reason I create this package is the twitter-text original package size (about 2Mb) and amount of work compiler and processor needs to do just to use it (all regexps are compiling at runtime). Here in my package with compiled regexps, so you can use only regexps you need.

Packages used:

Current list of regular expressions

  • url
  • cashtag
  • hashtag
  • mention
  • emoji
  • hashsign
  • atsign

Examples

cashtag

Extract cashtags. source

var regexp = require('twitter-regexps/cashtag');

var data = regexp.exec('Some text with cashtag $GE');
data.2; // '$' (sign)
data.3; // 'GE' (cashtag)
data.index; // 22 (position)

emoji

Extract emoji. source

var regexp = require('twitter-regexps/emoji');

var data = regexp.exec('Some text with 🧡 Twemoji!');
data.0; // '🧡' (emoji)
data.index; // 15 (position)

hashtag

Extract hashtags. source

var regexp = require('twitter-regexps/hashtag');

var data = regexp.exec('Some text with #hashtag');
data.2; // '#' (sign)
data.3; // 'hashtag' (hashtag)
data.index; // 14 (position)

mention

Extract mentions. source

var regexp = require('twitter-regexps/mention');

var data = regexp.exec('Some @username mention');
data.2; // '@' (sign)
data.3; // 'username' (username)
data.index; // 4 (position)

url

Extract urls. source

var regexp = require('twitter-regexps/url');

var data = regexp.exec('Some tweet with https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/twitter link');
data.3; // 'https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/twitter' (url)
data.4; // 'https://' (protocol)
data.5; // 'www.wikipedia.org' (domain)
data.7; // '/wiki/twitter' (path)
data.index; // 15 (position)