mention

mention

mention parses twitter like mentions and hashtags like @gernest and #Tanzania from text input.

Motivation

I have an idea that I'm implementing, its my attempt to try solving information flow in my country( Tanzania). I nneded to figure out how to compute directions, and heck the simplest approach is to use mentions and hashtags.

You can benefit from mention by reading the source code. I have made it simple, and a bit clear for anyone who wants to use bufio.Scanner in their project.

Installation

go get github.com/gernest/mention

Usage

mention is flexible, menaning it is not only limited to @ and # tags. You can choose whatever tag you like and mention will take it from there.

twitter like mentions

For instance you have the following message

hello @gernesti I would like to follow you on twitter

And you want to know aho was mentioed in the text.

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/gernest/mention"
)

func main() {
	message := "hello @gernest I would like to follow you on twitter"

	tags := mention.GetTags('@', strings.NewReader(message))

	fmt.Println(tags)
}

If you run the above example it will print [gernesti] is the stdout.

twitter like hashtags

For instance you have the following message

how does it feel to be rejected? #loner

And you want to know the hashtags

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/gernest/mention"
)

func main() {
	message := "how does it feel to be rejected? #loner"

	tags := mention.GetTags('#', strings.NewReader(message))

	fmt.Println(tags)
}

If you run the above example it will print [loner] in the stdout.

The API

mention exposes only one function GetTags(char rune, src io.Reader) []string

The first argument char is the prefix for your tag, this can be @ or # or whatever unicode character you prefer.Don't be worried by its type rune it is just your normal characters but in single quotes. see the examples for more information.

The second argument is the source of the input which can be from texts.

Contributing

Start with clicking the star button to make the author and his neighbors happy. Then fork the repository and submit a pull request for whatever change you want to be added to this project.

If you have any questions, just open an issue.

Author

Geofrey Ernest geofreyernest@live.com

Twitter : @gernesti

Facebook : Geofrey Ernest

Licence

This project is released under the MIT licence. See LICENCE for more details.