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Removing URLs and usernames in tweets
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remove_usernames_and_urls.py
import re
def remove_usernames_and_urls(text):
username_removed_text = re.sub('@\w+', '', text) # remove usernames
return re.sub('(https?|ftp)(:\/\/[-_.!~*\'()a-zA-Z0-9;\/?:\@&=+\$,%#]+)', '', username_removed_text) # remove urls
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