Comments on: Using Regular Expressions to Match Twitter Users and Hashtags

By: Chester

Chester — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:28:22 +0000

Thank you very much – these regexps will help me enhance http://myretweetedtweets.appspot.com with auto-links for references and hashes!

By: Simple API Usage With Caching – Curtis Fleming (the website)

Simple API Usage With Caching – Curtis Fleming (the website) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:23:43 +0000

[...] you are displaying tweets gracefully on your website. In the case of tweets you may want to use appropriate regular expressions as well to add links to Twitter usernames and [...]

By: wallstickers4u.com

wallstickers4u.com — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:53:05 +0000

any ideas on Java?
Just stumbled upon your blog looking for a solution to my problem – replace links, usernames and hashtags from tweets: my solution is
testData.replaceAll(“((?i)http:\\S*?\\s|(?i)http:\\S*?$|@\\S*?|@\\S*?$|\\#[:alnum:]*?|\\#[:alnum:]*?$)”, “[replaced]“)
Problem is the hashtag gets removed, but not the groupName.
Any ideas to solve that?

By: Ke Tao

Ke Tao — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:20:37 +0000

Cool post.

Btw: As I know, the punction of apostrophe( ‘ ) can also be a part of the hashtag.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:55:04 +0000

in AS3 for those interested. Works great. public static function parseTweetUsersAndTagsToLinks( tweet:String ):String { tweet = tweet.replace(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/g, "$1@$2"); return tweet.replace(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/g, "$1#$2"); }

By: Temurid

Temurid — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:05:11 +0000

Helo,
I need to make a web page where I can show tweets of say two different categories. I found by searcg that hash tag is a way to find tweeks of different types. But I do not find any help how to use these in php i.e. to find hashtags using php. I will be thankful for any help.

By: Graphity

Graphity — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:22:30 +0000

@Stephen: Ah, I understand. I just saw problems using localized hashtags, like, for me, German umlauts.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:22:20 +0000

Graphity: I tend to be cautious about using match-anything regexps, so deliberately limited it to letters, numbers, or an underscore. You certainly could use the match-anything regexp you posted if you wanted to be more liberal in what you match.

By: Graphity

Graphity — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:13:38 +0000

Question: Why don’t you use “/#([^ ]+)/” for hashtags, so you also capture non-Ascii tags?

By: lobolars

lobolars — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:47:01 +0000

Same method as above in ruby for those interested: def linkify_tweet(tweet) tweet.gsub!(/(^|\s)#(\w+)/, '\1#\2') tweet.gsub!(/(^|\s)@(\w+)/, '\1@\2') end