Speaking URL

Generate of so called "static" or "nice-looking" or "SpeakingURL" or "slug" from a string.

This module aims to transliteration the input string.

For use in browser and server.

Installation

server-side:

$ npm install speakingurl

client-side:

$ bower install speakingurl

or copy the file speakingurl.min.js to your script directory

Usage

getSlug(input, [options]);

input: {string} to convert; options: {object|string} config object or separator string (see below)

• separator {string} default: '-'

  • char that replace the whitespaces

• lang {string} default: 'en'

  • language for symbol translation ('en, 'de', more coming soon)

• maintainCase {boolean} default: false

  • true => maintain case chars
  • false => convert all chars to lower case

• uric {boolean} default: false

  • true => additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "$", ",", "/"
  • false => only Base64 chars allowed (/A-Za-z0-9-_/)

• uricNoSlash {boolean} default: false

  • true => additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "$", ","
  • false => only Base64 chars allowed (/A-Za-z0-9-_/)

• mark {boolean} default: false

  • true => additionally allow chars: "-", "_", ".", "!", "~", "*", "'", "(", ")"
  • false => only Base64 chars allowed (/A-Za-z0-9-_/)

• custom {object} default: {}

  • custom map for translation, overwrites all i.e. { '&': '#', '*': ' star ' }

• truncate {number} default: 0

  • 0 => don't trim length

  • 0 => trim to max length while not breaking any words

• options {string} separator

notes: default only Base64 chars are allowed (/A-Za-z0-9_-/), setting uric, uricNoSlash or/and mark to truewill add the specified chars to the allowed chars. The separator-character is always allowed.

Examples

var getSlug = require('speakingurl'),
    slug;

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !");
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen-bel-ete

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", "*");
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener*titel*laesst*gruessen*bel*ete

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {separator: "_"});
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener_titel_laesst_gruessen_bel_ete

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {uric: true});
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen?-bel-ete

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {uricNoSlash: true});
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen?-bel-ete

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {mark: true});
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener-titel-laesst-gruessen!-bel-ete-!

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {truncate: 20});
console.log(slug);
// Output: schoener-titel

slug = getSlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !", {maintainCase: true});
console.log(slug);
// Output: Schoener-Titel-laesst-gruessen-Bel-ete

slug = getSlug("Äpfel & Birnen!", {lang: 'de'});
console.log(slug);
// Output: aepfel-und-birnen

slug = getSlug("Apple & Pear!", {lang: 'en'}); // lang: "en" is default, just to clarify
console.log(slug);
// Output: apple-and-pear

slug = getSlug('Foo & Bar * Baz', {custom: {'&': ' doo '}, uric:true } );
console.log(slug);
// Output: foo-doo-bar-baz

slug = getSlug('Foo ♥ Bar');
console.log(slug);
// Output: foo-love-bar

slug = getSlug('Foo & Bar | (Baz) * Doo', {custom:{'*': "Boo"},mark:true});
console.log(slug);
// Output: foo-and-bar-or-(baz)-boo-doo

Tests

$ npm test

Credits

• @dypsilon
• @simov
• @henrikjoreteg

Informations

• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration

License

BSD

The BSD 3-Clause License (BSD3)

Copyright (c) 2013 Sascha Droste sascha.droste@gmail.com All rights reserved.

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