A parser library written with Nom to recognize hyperlinks in Markdown, reStructuredText and HTML formatted text input.
The library implements the CommonMark Specification 0.29, reStructuredText Markup Specification (revision 8571, date 2020-10-28), the specifications in Asciidoctor User Manual, chapter 26 (date 2020-12-03) and HTML 5.2: section 4.5.
To illustrate the usage and the API of the library, parse-hyperlinks comes also with a simple command line application.
Installation:
bash
cargo install parse-hyperlinks
Usage example:
text
$ cat input.txt
abc [my blog](https://getreu.net "blog title")abc
abc`my blog <https://getreu.net>`_abc
.. _my blog: https://get
reu.net
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a>
abc https://getreu.net[my blog]abc
shell
$ ./parse-hyperlinks <input.txt >ouput.html
html
$ cat ouput.html
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="blog title">my blog</a><br/>
<a href="https://getreu.net" title="">my blog</a><br/>
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