instagram-text-python is a caption parser and formatter for Python. Extract users, hashtags, URLs and format as HTML for display.
PyPI release: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/instagram-text-python/
$ pip install instagram-text-python
instagram-text-python supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5.
>>> from itp import itp
>>> p = itp.Parser()
>>> result = p.parse("Hey @user.name, you now support the #itp parser! https://github.com/takumihq")
>>> result.reply
'user.name'
>>> result.users
['user.name']
>>> result.tags
['itp']
>>> result.urls
['https://github.com/takumihq/']
>>> result.html
u'<a href="http://instagram.com/user.name">@user.name</a>, you now support the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/itp/">#itp</a> parser! <a href="https://github.com/takumihq/">https://github.com/takumihq/</a>'If you need different HTML output just subclass and override the format_* methods.
You can also ask for the span tags to be returned for each entity:
>>> p = itp.Parser(include_spans=True)
>>> result = p.parse("Hey @user.name, you now support the #itp parser! https://github.com/takumihq")
>>> result.urls
[('https://github.com/takumihq/', (57, 87))]To use the shortlink follower (depends on the Requests library):
>>> from itp import utils
>>> # assume that result.urls == ['http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu', u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF']
>>> print utils.follow_shortlinks(result.urls) # pass in list of shortlink URLs
{'http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu': [u'http://t.co/8o0z9BbEMu', u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21711199#TWEET650562'], u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF': [u'http://bbc.in/16dClPF', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/21711199#TWEET650562']}
>>> # note that bad shortlink URLs have a key to an empty list (lost/forgotten shortlink URLs don't generate any error)- 2016/03/08 2.0.0 Forked ttp to become an instagram text parser
- 2015/04/11 1.1.0 Add basic support for Python 3
- 2014/07/30 1.0.3 Update parsed URLs for twitter API 1.1 compatibility
- 2013/06/01 1.0.1 new working version, adding comma parse fix (thanks https://github.com/muckrack), used autopep8 to clean the src, added a shortlink expander
- 2013/02/11 1.0.0.2 released to PyPI
Run the unit tests:
$ python itp/tests.py
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Ran 100 tests in 0.009s
OK
Or test on multiple Python versions with tox:
$ pip install tox
$ tox
See the relevant wiki page for notes on contributing to instagram-text-python.
The current version was forked by TakumiHQ in March 2016 and modified to support instagram text parsings instead of twitter: https://github.com/takumihq/instagram-text-python
The library won was forked by Edmond Burnett in July 2014: https://github.com/edburnett/twitter-text-python
The library was forked by Ian Ozsvald in January 2013 and released to PyPI, some bugs were fixed, a few minor changes to functionality added (no longer supported): https://github.com/ianozsvald/twitter-text-python
The original itp comes from Ivo Wetzel (no longer supported): https://github.com/BonsaiDen/twitter-text-python
Originally based on https://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-java.
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Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Ivo Wetzel.
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