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How to check if string contains url anywhere in string using javascript and convert it to anchor tag

I have a textarea in which I am getting user's input data. But I need to know if there is any URL in textarea and convert it to anchor tag. For example:
Textarea Data:
Hi I'm Abdul. My Website is https://website.com
After Anchor Tag:
Hi I'm Abdul. My Website is https://website.com
Currently my code is:
var status = $('#status').val();
var urlCheck = new RegExp("([a-zA-Z0-9]+://)?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+#)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?");
if(urlCheck.test(status)) {
alert("url inside");
console.log(urlCheck.exec(status)[0]);
}
This is my current code but I don't know how to replace url with anchor tag in that string.

I am not sure if i understand you correctly, but do you want to have it changed live or after the form was sent? If the latter, i would try something like this:
var urlCheck = new RegExp("([a-zA-Z0-9]+://)?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+#)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?");
if(urlCheck.test(status)) {
alert("url inside");
console.log(urlCheck.exec(status)[0]);
// Here my possible solution (not tried out)
$('#status').val('<a href="http://'+urlCheck.exec(status)[0]+"' target='_blank'>the link</a>");
}
But this would also mean that you could/must check with a RegEX if the user entered http or not.

var status = $('#status').text();
var urlCheck = new RegExp("([a-zA-Z0-9]+://)?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+#)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?");
if(urlCheck.test(status)) {
alert("It has an URL!");
console.log(urlCheck.exec(status)[0]);
}
document.getElementById("status").innerHTML = status.replace(urlCheck.exec(status)[0],"<a href='"+urlCheck.exec(status)[0]+"'>"+urlCheck.exec(status)[0]+"</a>");
<div id="status">Hi I'm Abdul. My Website is https://website.com</div>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
We can use the html.replace() to replace the url inside the tags we wanted.

You have to use the JS replace() function.
I set the following example with an input textarea and an output textarea for let you see the difference.
function addUrl() {
var status = $('#status').val();
var urlCheck = /(([a-zA-Z0-9]+:\/\/)?([a-zA-Z0-9_]+:[a-zA-Z0-9_]+#)?([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:[0-9]+)?(\/.*)?)/;
$('#output').val(status.replace(urlCheck, '$1'));
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<label for="status">Input</label>
<textarea id="status" onChange="addUrl()"></textarea>
<br/>
<label for="output">Output</label>
<textarea id="output"></textarea>

use linkifyHtml or linkifyString : Linkify String Interface. Use linkify-string to replace links in plain-text strings with anchor tags.

Result of element is changing during getting it by script

I tried to get data with JavaScript:
The Text
var link = document.getElementById('link_Page')
var text=link.innerHTML;
var href=link.href;
I expect to see:
"/product/23" and "The Text "
But result is:
"http://localhost:60790/product/23" and "The Text "
Note: on jsfiddle.js I tested and result of text(not link) was fine. couldn't understand why it's gives me ' '
https://jsfiddle.net/mahma/ocwnufqb/

Note: on jsfiddle.js I tested and result of text(not link) was fine
.href will return the full URL of the linked resource, to get the exact value of the href attribute try using Element.getAttribute():
var link = document.getElementById('link_Page')
var text=link.innerHTML;
var href=link.getAttribute('href');
console.log(text);
console.log(href);
The Text

is the space character in HTML. You have a space character in the end of the a tag's text.

Here is the way you can do what you want.
var link = document.getElementById('link_Page')
var text = link.innerText;
var href = link.getAttribute('href');
console.log(text, href);
The Text

jQuery using Regex to find links within text but exclude if the link is in quotes

I am using jQuery and Regex to search a text string for http or https and convert the string to a URL. I need the code to skip the string if it starts with a quote.
below is my code:
// Get the content
var str = jQuery(this).html();
// Set the regex string
var exp = /(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%=~_|])/ig;
var replaced_text = str.replace(exp, function(url) {
clean_url = url.replace(/https?:\/\//gi,'');
return '' + clean_url + '';
})
jQuery(this).html(replaced_text);
Here is an example of my issue:
Text The School of Computer Science and Informatics. She blogs at http://www.wordpress.com and can be found on Twitter #Abcdef.
The current code successfully finds the text that starts with http or https and converts it to a URL but it also converts the twitter URL. I need to ignore the text if it starts with a quote or is within an a tag, etc...
Any help is much appreciated

What about adding [^"'] to the exp variable?
var exp = /(\b[^"'](https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%=~_|])/ig;
Snippet:
// Get the content
var str = jQuery("#text2replace").html();
// Set the regex string
var exp = /(\b[^"'](https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%=~_|])/ig;
var replaced_text = str.replace(exp, function(url) {
clean_url = url.replace(/https?:\/\//gi,'');
return '' + clean_url + '';
})
jQuery("#text2replace").html(replaced_text);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="text2replace">
The School of Computer Science and Informatics. She blogs at http://www.wordpress.com and can be found on Twitter #Abcdef.
</div>

If you really just want to ignore the quotation marks, this could help:
var replaced_text = $("#selector").html().replace(/([^"])(\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&##\/%=~_|])/ig, '$1$2');

This works for me:
This will recognize urls and convert them to hyperlinks, but will ignore urls, wrapped in " (quotes).
See the code below or this jsfiddle for a working example.
Example HTML:
<ul class="js-replaceUrls">
<li>
www.link-only-www.com
</li>
<li>
http://link-starts-with-HTTP.com
</li>
<li>
https://www.link-starts-with-https-and-www.com
</li>
<a href="https://link-starts-with-https.com">
Link in anchor tag
</a>
</ul>
RegEX:
/(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:#/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gmi
jQuery:
// RECOGNIZE URLS AND CONVERT THEM TO HYPERLINKS
// Ignore if hyperlink is found in HTML attr, like "href"
$('.js-replaceUrls').each(function(){
// GET THE CONTENT
var str = $(this).html();
// SET THE REGEX STRING
var regex = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:#/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gmi;
// REPLACE PLAIN TEXT LINKS BY HYPERLINKS
var replaced_text = str.replace(regex, "<a href='$1' class='js-link'>$1</a>");
// ECHO LINK
$(this).html(replaced_text);
});
// DEFINE URLS WITHOUT "http" OR "https"
var linkHasNoHttp = $(".js-link:not([href*=http],[href*=https])");
// ADD "http://" TO "href"
$(linkHasNoHttp).each(function() {
var linkHref = $(this).attr("href");
$(this).attr("href" , "http://" + linkHref);
});
See this jsfiddle for a working example.

Remove everything before the URL text

I have this you URL passby my variable and somehow I get the URL differently, so I have to remove it.
My URL
http://localhost/Air.com/Img/team/12345/12345.png
I am using this code to remove it
Image_src = url
// Image_src = Image_src.replace(/https?:\/\/[^\/]+\/+/i, "");
But somehow sometimes I have other URL, is there any way I can remove everything before /Img
Img/team/12345/12345.png
No matter what URL in front, remove everything before Img.

Try this:
var Image_src = url.substring(url.indexOf("/Img/"));
If you don't want the / character also just add 1, like so:
var Image_src = url.substring(url.indexOf("/Img/") + 1);

This may help you.
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://localhost/Air.com/Img/team/12345/12345.png";
parser.pathname.substring(parser.pathname.indexOf('/',2)) // return /Img/team/12345/12345.png

Extracting the source code of a facebook page with JavaScript

If I write code in the JavaScript console of Chrome, I can retrieve the whole HTML source code by entering:
var a = document.body.InnerHTML; alert(a);
For fb_dtsg on Facebook, I can easily extract it by writing:
var fb_dtsg = document.getElementsByName('fb_dtsg')[0].value;
Now, I am trying to extract the code "h=AfJSxEzzdTSrz-pS" from the Facebook Page. The h value is especially useful for Facebook reporting.
How can I get the h value for reporting? I don't know what the h value is; the h value is totally different when you communicate with different users. Without that h correct value, you can not report. Actually, the h value is AfXXXXXXXXXXX (11 character values after 'Af'), that is what I know.
Do you have any ideas for getting the value or any function to generate on Facebook page.
The Facebook Source snippet is below, you can view source on facebook profile, and search h=Af, you will get the value:
<code class="hidden_elem" id="ukftg4w44">
<!-- <div class="mtm mlm">
...
....
<span class="itemLabel fsm">Unfriend...</span></a></li>
<li class="uiMenuItem" data-label="Report/Block...">
<a class="itemAnchor" role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="/ajax/report/social.php?content_type=0&cid=1352686914&rid=1352686914&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2 F%3Fq&h=AfjSxEzzdTSrz-pS&from_gear=timeline" rel="dialog">
<span class="itemLabel fsm">Report/Block...</span></a></li></ul></div>
...
....
</div> -->
</code>
Please guide me. How can extract the value exactly?
I tried with following code, but the comment block prevent me to extract the code. How can extract the value which is inside comment block?
var a = document.getElementsByClassName('hidden_elem')[3].innerHTML;alert(a);

Here's my first attempt, assuming you aren't afraid of a little jQuery:
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/5158301/74757
function getParameterByName(name, path) {
var match = RegExp('[?&]' + name + '=([^&]*)').exec(path);
return match && decodeURIComponent(match[1].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}
var html = $('.hidden_elem')[0].innerHTML.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '');
var href = $(html).find('.itemAnchor').attr('href');
var fbId = getParameterByName('h', href); // fbId = AfjSxEzzdTSrz-pS
Working Demo
EDIT: A way without jQuery:
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/5158301/74757
function getParameterByName(name, path) {
var match = RegExp('[?&]' + name + '=([^&]*)').exec(path);
return match && decodeURIComponent(match[1].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}
var hiddenElHtml = document.getElementsByClassName('hidden_elem')[0]
.innerHTML.replace('<!--', '').replace('-->', '');
var divObj = document.createElement('div');
divObj.innerHTML = hiddenElHtml;
var itemAnchor = divObj.getElementsByClassName('itemAnchor')[0];
var href = itemAnchor.getAttribute('href');
var fbId = getParameterByName('h', href);
Working Demo
I'd really like to offer a different solution for "uncommenting" the HTML, but I stink at regex :)