React Native AutoLink

Auto-Linking component for React Native. Parses text and wraps URLs, phone numbers, emails, social handles, hashtags, and more with Text nodes and onPress handlers. And it's all fully customizable :)

Installation

npm install react-native-autolink --save

Usage

Simply import the library and pass desired props:

import Autolink from 'react-native-autolink';

class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Autolink
        text="This is the string to parse for urls (https://github.com/joshswan/react-native-autolink), phone numbers (415-555-5555), emails (josh@example.com), mentions/handles (@twitter), and hashtags (#exciting)"
        hashtag="instagram"
        mention="twitter"
      />
    );
  }
}

Props

• component?
• email?
• hashtag?
• latlng?
• linkProps?
• linkStyle?
• mention?
• onPress?
• onLongPress?
• phone?
• renderLink?
• renderText?
• showAlert?
• stripPrefix?
• stripTrailingSlash?
• text
• textProps?
• truncate?
• truncateChars?
• truncateLocation?
• url?
• webFallback?

Note: All other props (e.g. numberOfLines, style, etc.) will be passed through to the container component, which is either Text (default) or a custom component supplied to the component prop.

component

Type	Required	Default	Description
React.ComponentType	No	Text	Override the component used as the output container.

<Autolink text={text} component={View} />

email

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	true	Whether to link emails (mailto:{email}).

<Autolink text={text} email={false} />

hashtag

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean or string	No	false	Whether to link hashtags to supplied service. Possible values: false (disabled), "facebook", "instagram", "twitter".

<Autolink text={text} hashtag="facebook" />

latlng

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	false	Whether to link latitude, longitude pairs.

Warning: Still experimental.

<Autolink text={text} latlng />

linkProps

Type	Required	Default	Description
TextProps	No	{}	Attributes applied to link Text components.

<Autolink text={text} linkProps={{ suppressHighlighting: true, testID: 'link' }} />

linkStyle

Type	Required	Default	Description
TextStyle	No	{}	Styles applied to link Text components. Note: Will be overriden if style supplied in linkProps.

<Autolink text={text} linkStyle={{ color: 'blue' }} />

mention

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean or string	No	false	Whether to link mentions/handles to supplied service. Possible values: false (disabled), "instagram", "soundcloud", "twitter".

<Autolink text={text} mention="instagram" />

onPress

Type	Required	Default	Description
function	No		Override default link press behavior. Signature: (url: string, match: Match) => void.

<Autolink
  text={text}
  onPress={(url, match) => {
    switch (match.getType()) {
      case 'mention':
        Alert.alert('Mention pressed!');
      default:
        Alert.alert('Link pressed!');
    }
  }}
/>

onLongPress

Type	Required	Default	Description
function	No	none	Handle link long press events. Signature: (url: string, match: Match) => void.

<Autolink
  text={text}
  onLongPress={(url, match) => {
    switch (match.getType()) {
      case 'mention':
        Alert.alert('Mention long pressed!');
      default:
        Alert.alert('Link long pressed!');
    }
  }}
/>

phone

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean or string	No	true	Whether to link phone numbers. Possible values: false (disabled), true (tel:{number}), "sms" or "text" (sms:{number}).

Note: Currently, only US numbers are supported.

<Autolink text={text} phone="sms" />

renderLink

Type	Required	Default	Description
function	No		Override default link rendering behavior. Signature: (text: string, match: Match, index: number) => React.ReactNode.

Note: You'll need to handle press logic yourself when using renderLink.

<Autolink
  text={text}
  component={View}
  renderLink={(text, match) => <MyLinkPreviewComponent url={match.getAnchorHref()} />}
/>

renderText

Type	Required	Default	Description
function	No		Override default text rendering behavior. Signature: (text: string, index: number) => React.ReactNode.

<Autolink
  text={text}
  component={View}
  renderText={(text) => <MyTypographyComponent>{text}</MyTypographyComponent>}
/>

showAlert

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	false	Whether to display an alert before leaving the app (for privacy or accidental clicks).

<Autolink text={text} showAlert />

stripPrefix

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	true	Whether to strip protocol from URL link text (e.g. https://github.com -> github.com).

<Autolink text={text} stripPrefix={false} />

stripTrailingSlash

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	true	Whether to strip trailing slashes from URL link text (e.g. github.com/ -> github.com).

<Autolink text={text} stripTrailingSlash={false} />

text

Type	Required	Default	Description
string	Yes		The string to parse for links.

<Autolink text={text} />

textProps

Type	Required	Default	Description
TextProps	No	{}	Attributes applied to non-link Text components.

<Autolink text={text} textProps={{ selectable: false }} />

truncate

Type	Required	Default	Description
number	No	32	Maximum length of URL link text. Possible values: 0 (disabled), 1+ (maximum length).

<Autolink text={text} truncate={20} />

truncateChars

Type	Required	Default	Description
string	No	..	Characters to replace truncated URL link text segments with (e.g. github.com/../repo)

<Autolink text={text} truncateChars="**" />

truncateLocation

Type	Required	Default	Description
string	No	"smart"	Override truncation location. Possible values: "smart", "end", "middle".

<Autolink text={text} truncateLocation="end" />

url

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean or object	No	true	Whether to link URLs. Possible values: false (disabled), true, UrlConfig (see below).

type UrlConfig = {
  // Whether to link URLs prefixed with a scheme (e.g. https://github.com)
  schemeMatches?: boolean;
  // Whether to link URLs prefix with www (e.g. www.github.com)
  wwwMatches?: boolean;
  // Whether to link URLs with TLDs but not scheme or www prefixs (e.g. github.com)
  tldMatches?: boolean;
};

<Autolink text={text} url={false} />
<Autolink text={text} url={{ tldMatches: false }} />

webFallback

Type	Required	Default	Description
boolean	No	Android: true, iOS: false	Whether to link to web versions of services (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) for hashtag and mention links when users don't have the respective app installed.

Note: Requires LSApplicationQueriesSchemes on iOS so it is disabled by default on iOS. See Linking docs for more info.

Supported By

License

 Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Josh Swan

 Licensed under the The MIT License (MIT) (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshswan/react-native-autolink/master/LICENSE

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

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