bonsaiden/twitter-text-python

Twitter text processing library (auto linking and extraction of usernames, lists and hashtags). Based on the Java implementation by Matt Sanford

twitter-text-python

Please note that this project is now maintained and developed by Edmond Burnett.

Please file any issues and pull requests at his fork instead of here.

There is also a actively maintained PyPi release of the library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter-text-python/

twitter-text-python's Issues

Conformance fails for double @@

This test fails...

• description: "DO NOT extract username preceded by @"
  text: "f@@kn"
  expected: []

result: kn

Can not handle short domain

Twitter will parse "name.com" as a seperate link and convert it to a t.co one, however this module does not do as the same.

Py3k compatibility

(.py3kvenv) yegle@november ~ $ python ttp.py
  File "ttp.py", line 26
    AT_SIGNS = ur'[@\uff20]'
                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is a test on Python 3.3.0

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Extracted URL contains invalid characters

import ttp
p = ttp.Parser()
result = p.parse("Poet & MacArthur Fellow A.E. Stallings (http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP) injects humor and passion into the Greek and Roman Classics.")
result.html
'Poet & MacArthur Fellow A.E. Stallings (<a href="http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP)">http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP)</a> injects humor and passion into the Greek and Roman Classics.'

Actual Result: <a href="http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP)">http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP)</a>
Expected Result: <a href="http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP)">http://t.co/Q8x1T1JP</a>