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URI::Find - Find URIs in arbitrary text
require URI::Find; my $finder = URI::Find->new(\&callback); $how_many_found = $finder->find(\$text);
This module does one thing: Finds URIs and URLs in plain text. It finds them quickly and it finds them all (or what URI::URL considers a URI to be.) It only finds URIs which include a scheme (http:// or the like), for something a bit less strict have a look at URI::Find::Schemeless.
For a command-line interface, urifind is provided.
my $finder = URI::Find->new(\&callback);
Creates a new URI::Find object.
&callback is a function which is called on each URI found. It is passed two arguments, the first is a URI::URL object representing the URI found. The second is the original text of the URI found. The return value of the callback will replace the original URI in the text.
my $how_many_found = $finder->find(\$text);
$text is a string to search and possibly modify with your callback.
Alternatively, find can be called with a replacement function for
the rest of the text:
use CGI qw(escapeHTML); # ... my $how_many_found = $finder->find(\$text, \&escapeHTML);
will not only call the callback function for every URL found (and
perform the replacement instructions therein), but also run the rest
of the text through escapeHTML(). This makes it easier to turn
plain text which contains URLs into HTML (see example below).
I got a bunch of mail from people asking if I'd add certain features to URI::Find. Most wanted the search to be less restrictive, do more heuristics, etc... Since many of the requests were contradictory, I'm letting people create their own custom subclasses to do what they want.
The following are methods internal to URI::Find which a subclass can override to change the way URI::Find acts. They are only to be called inside a URI::Find subclass. Users of this module are NOT to use these methods.
my $uri_re = $self->uri_re;
Returns the regex for finding absolute, schemed URIs (http://www.foo.com and such). This, combined with schemeless_uri_re() is what finds candidate URIs.
Usually this method does not have to be overridden.
my $schemeless_re = $self->schemeless_uri_re;
Returns the regex for finding schemeless URIs (www.foo.com and such) and
other things which might be URIs. By default this will match nothing
(though it used to try to find schemeless URIs which started with www
and ftp).
Many people will want to override this method. See URI::Find::Schemeless for a subclass does a reasonable job of finding URIs which might be missing the scheme.
my $uric_set = $self->uric_set;
Returns a set matching the 'uric' set defined in RFC 2396 suitable for putting into a character set ([]) in a regex.
You almost never have to override this.
my $cruft_set = $self->cruft_set;
Returns a set of characters which are considered garbage. Used by decruft().
my $uri = $self->decruft($uri);
Sometimes garbage characters like periods and parenthesis get accidentally matched along with the URI. In order for the URI to be properly identified, it must sometimes be "decrufted", the garbage characters stripped.
This method takes a candidate URI and strips off any cruft it finds.
my $uri = $self->recruft($uri);
This method puts back the cruft taken off with decruft(). This is necessary because the cruft is destructively removed from the string before invoking the user's callback, so it has to be put back afterwards.
my $schemed_uri = $self->schemeless_to_schemed($schemeless_uri);
This takes a schemeless URI and returns an absolute, schemed URI. The standard implementation supplies ftp:// for URIs which start with ftp., and http:// otherwise.
$obj->is_schemed($uri);
Returns whether or not the given URI is schemed or schemeless. True for schemed, false for schemeless.
__PACKAGE__->badinvo($extra_levels, $msg)
This is used to complain about bogus subroutine/method invocations. The args are optional.
The old find_uri() function is still around and it works, but its deprecated.
Store a list of all URIs (normalized) in the document.
my @uris;
my $finder = URI::Find->new(sub {
my($uri) = shift;
push @uris, $uri;
});
$finder->find(\$text);
Print the original URI text found and the normalized representation.
my $finder = URI::Find->new(sub {
my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
print "The text '$orig_uri' represents '$uri'\n";
return $orig_uri;
});
$finder->find(\$text);
Check each URI in document to see if it exists.
use LWP::Simple;
my $finder = URI::Find->new(sub {
my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
if( head $uri ) {
print "$orig_uri is okay\n";
}
else {
print "$orig_uri cannot be found\n";
}
return $orig_uri;
});
$finder->find(\$text);
Turn plain text into HTML, with each URI found wrapped in an HTML anchor.
use CGI qw(escapeHTML);
use URI::Find;
my $finder = URI::Find->new(sub {
my($uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
return qq|<a href="$uri">$orig_uri</a>|;
});
$finder->find(\$text, \&escapeHTML);
print "<pre>$text</pre>";
Will not find URLs with Internationalized Domain Names or pretty much any non-ascii stuff in them. See http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44226
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> with insight from Uri Gutman, Greg Bacon, Jeff Pinyan, Roderick Schertler and others.
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> maintained versions 0.11 to 0.16.
Darren Chamberlain wrote urifind.
Copyright 2000, 2009-2010 by Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_1_0
urifind, URI::Find::Schemeless, URI::URL, URI, RFC 3986 Appendix C
| URI-Find documentation | Contained in the URI-Find distribution. |
# Copyright (c) 2000, 2009 Michael G. Schwern. All rights reserved. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the same terms as Perl itself. package URI::Find; require 5.006; use strict; use base qw(Exporter); use vars qw($VERSION @EXPORT); $VERSION = 20100505; @EXPORT = qw(find_uris); use constant YES => (1==1); use constant NO => !YES; use Carp qw(croak); use URI::URL; require URI; # URI scheme pattern without the non-alpha numerics. # Those are extremely uncommon and interfere with the match. my($schemeRe) = qr/[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*/; my($uricSet) = $URI::uric; # We need to avoid picking up 'HTTP::Request::Common' so we have a # subset of uric without a colon ("I have no colon and yet I must poop") my($uricCheat) = __PACKAGE__->uric_set; $uricCheat =~ tr/://d; # Identifying characters accidentally picked up with a URI. my($cruftSet) = q{]),.'";}; #'#
sub new { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($proto, $callback) = @_; my($class) = ref $proto || $proto; my $self = bless {}, $class; $self->{callback} = $callback; return $self; }
sub find { @_ == 2 || @_ == 3 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $r_text, $escape_func) = @_; # Might be slower, but it makes the code simpler $escape_func ||= sub { return $_[0] }; $self->{_uris_found} = 0; # Don't assume http. my $old_strict = URI::URL::strict(1); # Yes, evil. Basically, look for something vaguely resembling a URL, # then hand it off to URI::URL for examination. If it passes, throw # it to a callback and put the result in its place. local $SIG{__DIE__} = 'DEFAULT'; my $uri_cand; my $uri; my $uriRe = sprintf '(?:%s|%s)', $self->uri_re, $self->schemeless_uri_re; $$r_text =~ s{ (.*?) (?:(<(?:URL:)?)(.+?)(>)|($uriRe)) | (.+?)$ }{ my $replace = ''; if( defined $6 ) { $replace = $escape_func->($6); } else { my $maybe_uri = ''; $replace = $escape_func->($1); if( defined $2 ) { $maybe_uri = $3; my $is_uri = do { # Don't alter $1... $maybe_uri =~ s/\s+//g; $maybe_uri =~ /^$uriRe/; }; if( $is_uri ) { $replace .= $escape_func->($2); $replace .= $self->_uri_filter($maybe_uri); $replace .= $escape_func->($4); } else { # the whole text inside of the <...> was not a url, but # maybe it has a url (like an HTML <a> link) my $has_uri = do { # Don't alter $1... $maybe_uri = $3; $maybe_uri =~ /$uriRe/; }; if( $has_uri ) { my $pre = $2; my $post = $4; do { $self->find(\$maybe_uri, $escape_func) }; $replace .= $escape_func->($pre); $replace .= $maybe_uri; $replace .= $escape_func->($post); } else { $replace .= $escape_func->($2.$3.$4); } } } else { $replace .= $self->_uri_filter($5); } } $replace; }gsex; URI::URL::strict($old_strict); return $self->{_uris_found}; } sub _uri_filter { my($self, $orig_match) = @_; # A heuristic. Often you'll see things like: # "I saw this site, http://www.foo.com, and its really neat!" # or "Foo Industries (at http://www.foo.com)" # We want to avoid picking up the trailing paren, period or comma. # Of course, this might wreck a perfectly valid URI, more often than # not it corrects a parse mistake. $orig_match = $self->decruft($orig_match); my $replacement = ''; if( my $uri = $self->_is_uri(\$orig_match) ) { # It's a URI $self->{_uris_found}++; $replacement = $self->{callback}->($uri, $orig_match); } else { # False alarm $replacement = $orig_match; } # Return recrufted replacement return $self->recruft($replacement); }
sub uri_re { @_ == 1 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self) = shift; return sprintf '%s:[%s][%s#]*', $schemeRe, $uricCheat, $self->uric_set; }
sub schemeless_uri_re { @_ == 1 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self) = shift; return qr/\b\B/; # match nothing }
sub uric_set { @_ == 1 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; return $uricSet; }
sub cruft_set { @_ == 1 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; return $cruftSet; }
sub decruft { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $orig_match) = @_; $self->{start_cruft} = ''; $self->{end_cruft} = ''; if( $orig_match =~ s/([\Q$cruftSet\E]+)$// ) { # urls can end with HTML entities if found in HTML so let's put back semicolons # if this looks like the case my $cruft = $1; if( $cruft =~ /^;/ && $orig_match =~ /\&(\#[1-9]\d{1,3}|[a-zA-Z]{2,8})$/) { $orig_match .= ';'; $cruft =~ s/^;//; } $self->{end_cruft} = $cruft if $cruft; } return $orig_match; }
#'# sub recruft { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $uri) = @_; return $self->{start_cruft} . $uri . $self->{end_cruft}; }
sub schemeless_to_schemed { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $uri_cand) = @_; $uri_cand =~ s|^(<?)ftp\.|$1ftp://ftp\.| or $uri_cand =~ s|^(<?)|${1}http://|; return $uri_cand; }
sub is_schemed { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $uri) = @_; return scalar $uri =~ /^<?$schemeRe:/; }
sub badinvo { my $package = shift; my $level = @_ ? shift : 0; my $msg = @_ ? " (" . shift() . ")" : ''; my $subname = (caller $level + 1)[3]; croak "Bogus invocation of $subname$msg"; }
# Old interface. sub find_uris (\$&) { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($r_text, $callback) = @_; my $self = __PACKAGE__->new($callback); return $self->find($r_text); }
sub _is_uri { @_ == 2 || __PACKAGE__->badinvo; my($self, $r_uri_cand) = @_; my $uri = $$r_uri_cand; # Translate schemeless to schemed if necessary. $uri = $self->schemeless_to_schemed($uri) if $uri =~ $self->schemeless_uri_re and $uri !~ /^<?$schemeRe:/; eval { $uri = URI::URL->new($uri); }; if($@ || !defined $uri) { # leave everything untouched, its not a URI. return NO; } else { # Its a URI. return $uri; } }
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