Social Regex Account Detection and Extraction for Ruby. Detect and extract URLs of social accounts: throw in URLs, get back URLs of social media profiles by type.
Features:
- detect the platform a url points to (all major platforms supported)
- extract the information contained within the url (without opening the url, of course)
- extract emails and phone numbers from hyperlinks
Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:
$ bundle add socials_regex
If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:
$ gem install socials_regex
This gem requires Ruby 2.6+
require 'socials_regex'
supported_platforms = SocialsRegex::Platforms.all
# [:PLATFORM_FACEBOOK, :PLATFORM_GITHUB, :PLATFORM_LINKEDIN, :PLATFORM_TWITTER, :PLATFORM_INSTAGRAM, :PLATFORM_YOUTUBE,
# :PLATFORM_EMAIL, :PLATFORM_HACKER_NEWS, :PLATFORM_MEDIUM, :PLATFORM_PHONE, :PLATFORM_REDDIT,
# :PLATFORM_SKYPE, :PLATFORM_SNAPCHAT, :PLATFORM_STACKEXCHANGE, :PLATFORM_STACKOVERFLOW, :PLATFORM_STACKOVERFLOW,
# :PLATFORM_TELEGRAM, :PLATFORM_VIMEO, :PLATFORM_XING, :PLATFORM_ANGELLIST, :PLATFORM_CRUNCHBASE,
# :PLATFORM_STACKEXCHANGE_NETWORK, :PLATFORM_WHATSAPP, :PLATFORM_YELP]
supported_regexes = SocialsRegex::Regexes.all
# [:ANGELLIST_URL_REGEX, :CRUNCHBASE_URL_REGEX, :EMAIL_URL_REGEX, :FACEBOOK_URL_REGEX, :GITHUB_URL_REGEX, :HACKERNEWS_URL_REGEX,
# :INSTAGRAM_URL_REGEX, :LINKEDIN_URL_REGEX, :MEDIUM_URL_REGEX, :PHONE_URL_REGEX, :REDDIT_URL_REGEX, :SKYPE_URL_REGEX, :SNAPCHAT_URL_REGEX,
# :STACKEXCHANGE_URL_REGEX, :STACKEXCHANGE_NETWORK_URL_REGEX, :STACKOVERFLOW_URL_REGEX, :TELEGRAM_URL_REGEX, :TWITTER_URL_REGEX,
# :VIMEO_URL_REGEX, :XING_URL_REGEX, :YOUTUBE_URL_REGEX, :WHATSAPP_URL_REGEX, :YELP_URL_REGEX]
# get all regex for all regex
platform_regexes = SocialsRegex::Socials::PLATFORMS_REGEX
# example [:yelp, {:company=>/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?yelp\.com\/biz\/(?<company>[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/}]
# get regex for specific platforms
twitter_regex = SocialsRegex::Socials::PLATFORMS_REGEX[:twitter]
# {:status=>/(?:https?:)?\/\/(?:[A-Za-z]+\.)?twitter\.com\/@?(?<username>[A-Za-z0-9_]+)\/status\/(?<tweet_id>[0-9]+)\/?/,
# :user=>/(?:https?:)?\/\/(?:[A-Za-z]+\.)?twitter\.com\/@?(?!home|share|privacy|tos)(?<username>[A-Za-z0-9_]+)\/?/}
# how to extract social data from links or texts
text = 'https://twitter.com/karllorey/status/1259924082067374088' \
'https://twitter.com/karllorey12/status/12599240820673740883' \
'http://crunchbase.com/organization/acme-corp jeff@amazon.com mailto:plususer+test@gmail.com' \
'https://facebook.com/peter.parker https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004123456789' \
'https://github.com/talaatmagdyx https://github.com/talaatmagdyx/socials_regex' \
'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290375 https://instagram.com/__disco__dude' \
'https://www.linkedin.com/in/talaatmagdyx/ https://medium.com/does-exist/some-post-123abc'
extract = SocialsRegex::Extraction.new(text: text)
# #<SocialsRegex::Extraction:0x00007f5c51d0c488 @text= "https://twitter.com/karllorey/status/......">
# to extract all links and data
extract.extract_matches_per_platform
# {:crunchbase=>{:company=>[{:matched=>"http://crunchbase.com/organization/acme-corp", "organization"=>"acme-corp"}]},
# :medium=>{:post=>[{:matched=>"https://medium.com/does-exist/some-post-123abc", "username"=>nil, "publication"=>"does-exist", "slug"=>"some-post", "post_id"=>"123abc"}]},
# :hackernews=>{:item=>[{:matched=>"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290375", "item"=>"23290375"}]},
# :email=>{:email=>[{:matched=>"jeff@amazon.com", "email"=>"jeff@amazon.com"}, {:matched=>"mailto:plususer+test@gmail.comhttps", "email"=>"plususer+test@gmail.comhttps"}]},
# :instagram=>{:profile=>[{:matched=>"https://instagram.com/__disco__dudehttps", "username"=>"__disco__dudehttps"}]},
# to extract links or data using specific platform like instagram
extract.extract_matches_by_platform(platform: 'instagram') # or use :instagram
# {"instagram"=>{:profile=>[{:matched=>"https://instagram.com/__disco__dudehttps", "username"=>"__disco__dudehttps"}]}}
# to extract links or data using specific regex like twitter status
matches = extract.extract_matches_by_regex(regex: SocialsRegex::Regexes::TWITTER_URL_REGEX[:status])
# [{:matched=>"https://twitter.com/karllorey/status/1259924082067374088", "username"=>"karllorey", "tweet_id"=>"1259924082067374088"},
# {:matched=>"https://twitter.com/karllorey12/status/12599240820673740883", "username"=>"karllorey12", "tweet_id"=>"12599240820673740883"}]
- social-media-profiles-regexs: extract urls of social media profiles with regular expressions
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at Contributing. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.
Please open an Issue on GitHub if you have feedback, new feature requests, or want to report a bug. Thank you!
Please read Contributing
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Everyone interacting in the SocialsRegex project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.