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guillaumepiot/PYTHON - Convert URL in text to anchor tags (links)

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PYTHON - Convert URL in text to anchor tags (links)
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PYTHON - Convert URL in text to anchor tags (links)
def replace_url_to_link(value):
# Replace url to link
urls = re.compile(r"((https?):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&]*)", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)
value = urls.sub(r'<a href="\1" target="_blank">\1</a>', value)
# Replace email to mailto
urls = re.compile(r"([\w\-\.]+@(\w[\w\-]+\.)+[\w\-]+)", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)
value = urls.sub(r'<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', value)
return value
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note: running this on a string that already contains anchors will wrap the links inside the anchors again

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