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gregjacobs / Autolinker.js

Utility to Automatically Link URLs, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers, Twitter handles, and Hashtags in a given block of text/HTML
MIT License
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Quick question about twitter handles #134

Closed nitinthewiz closed 8 years ago

nitinthewiz commented 8 years ago

I'm just wondering this out loud - the library links twitter handles, but does it actually verify that the twitter account exists?

I don't see that actually happening in the code, so I'm curious.

gregjacobs commented 8 years ago

Hey Nitin. No, the code does not make any effort to confirm with Twitter if the usernames exist. That would involve an async network request to Twitter's server, and that's just not really within the scope of what Autolinker is designed to do.

If you need something like this behavior though, I might be able to help your write it with some post-processing and DOM manipulation

nitinthewiz commented 8 years ago

@gregjacobs thanks for confirming. No, I don't think there's any great benefit to writing fresh code to solve that problem.

I have a very small liveblog implementation that I slowly keep extending. My current workflow involves making sure the twitter handle exists and then writing/copying it to my creation web form. That form submits and sends posts to my liveblog, twitter and app.net accounts. Extending that functionality is just a past time. :smile:

I think such a library does exist out there and I've seen it before. Some day I'll look for it and integrate it into my 'create' form.