Creates hyperlinks for elements returned from the Twitter API in plain text.

gistfile1.txt

// call function
$(document).ready(function() {
  var twitterFeed = TWITTER_PARSE_LINKS("#js-twitterFeed");
});

twitter-parse-links.js

var TWITTER_PARSE_LINKS = function(el) {
  
  var stripSpecialChars = function stripSpecialChars(text) {
    return text.replace(/[^A-z\s\d][\\\^]?/, "");
  };
    
  var findTwitterUrl = function findTwitterUrl(text) {
      var regexPattern = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig;
      return text.replace(regexPattern, function(url) {
          return '<a target="_blank" href="' + url + '">' + url + '</a>';
      });
  };

  var findTwitterMentions = function findTwitterUrl(text) {
      var regexPattern = /\B@(?!\-)[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*(?![^<]*<\/a>)/ig;
      return text.replace(regexPattern, function(url) {
          var urlNoCharacters = stripSpecialChars(url);
          return '<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/' + urlNoCharacters + '">' + url + '</a>';
      });
  };

  var findTwitterHashtags = function findTwitterHashtags(text) {
      var regexPattern = /\B#([a-z0-9]{2,})(?![~!@#$%^&*?=+_`\-\|\/'\[\]\{\}]*\w)/ig;
      return text.replace(regexPattern, function(url) {
          var urlNoCharacters = stripSpecialChars(url);
          return '<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/hashtag/' + urlNoCharacters + '">' + url + '</a>';
      });
  };

  $(el).each(function() {
      this.innerHTML = findTwitterUrl(this.innerHTML);
      this.innerHTML = findTwitterMentions(this.innerHTML);
      this.innerHTML = findTwitterHashtags(this.innerHTML);
  });
};

twitter-parse-links.min.js

var TWITTER_PARSE_LINKS=function(t){var n=function(t){return t.replace(/[^A-z\s\d][\\\^]?/,"")},r=function(t){var n=/(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/gi;return t.replace(n,function(t){return'<a target="_blank" href="'+t+'">'+t+"</a>"})},e=function(t){var r=/\B@(?!\-)[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*(?![^<]*<\/a>)/gi;return t.replace(r,function(t){var r=n(t);return'<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/'+r+'">'+t+"</a>"})},a=function(t){var r=/\B#([a-z0-9]{2,})(?![~!@#$%^&*?=+_`\-\|\/'\[\]\{\}]*\w)/gi;return t.replace(r,function(t){var r=n(t);return'<a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/hashtag/'+r+'">'+t+"</a>"})};$(t).each(function(){this.innerHTML=r(this.innerHTML),this.innerHTML=e(this.innerHTML),this.innerHTML=a(this.innerHTML)})};