CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Schotsl
Schotsl

Reputation: 227

Temporarily remove URL from string

I've created a Twitter bot that copies the tweet of a certain user and then uwu-fies them, meaning it just changes some characters to make them funny, Elon becomes Ewon for example. Now of course it's very debatable how funny this actually is but I think that's besides the point for now.

If I got a tweet with a URL, of course the URL can't be uwu-fied since it would become invalid. The way I've sold this right now is, search for the URL using a regex, replace it with a performance.now() (I used to use a UUID v4 but that also contains characters that would get uwu-fied) and save an object with the URL and performance.now() that was used.

Then when the uwu-fication is done I can reconstruct is using the saved object, this does work but it feels like a bodged solution. The only other solution I could think of is generating a UUID that only contains characters that won't get uwu-fied?

EDIT:

Based of the current marked answer I've solved the problem by transforming my code into this:

// Split the sentence into words
const words = sentence.split(` `);
const pattern = new RegExp(/(?:https?|ftp):\/\/[\n\S]+/g);

// If the word is a URL just attach it to the new string without uwufying
let uwufied = ``;
words.forEach(word => uwufied += ` ${pattern.test(word) ? word : uwufyWord(word)}`);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 105

Answers (1)

MarvinJWendt
MarvinJWendt

Reputation: 2684

You can split the tweet into an array .split(" "), and then run over that array with a foreach loop. You can handle the tweet word by word then. At the start of your handle process you would check that the "word" is not an url. Then handle your replacements.

let tweet = "Hello World. What's up?"
let arr = tweet.split(" ")
let output = ""

for (word of arr) {
  // Check that it's not an URL here
  // Replace here
  output += word + " "
}

// Use output here
console.log(output)

Upvotes: 1

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