html-linkify

Replace any links and emails found in your text with HTML anchor elements and return properly escaped and safe HTML.

Example

var linkify = require("html-linkify");
var text = linkify(
	"Visit http://foo.com!\n" +
	"Email [email protected]\n" +
	"<script>alert('xss!')</script>");
console.log(text);
// -> Visit <a href="http://foo.com">http://foo.com</a>!
//    Email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
//    &lt;script&gt;alert(&#39;xss!&#39;)&lt;/script&gt;

API

linkify(text, [options])

Replace any links found in the input text with anchor elements.

Options:

• options.attributes: A mapping of attributes to be added to the generated anchor elements (in addition to href).
• options.escape: Whether surrounding HTML tags should be escaped or not (default: true).

Todo

• Allow arbitrary user-definable replacing

Installation

npm install html-linkify