nfrasser/linkifyjs

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2039 stars · 186 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Linkify is a JavaScript library that finds URLs, email addresses, #hashtags, @mentions and other link-like entities in plain text and converts them into HTML <a> tags. It ships with interfaces for plain strings, HTML, React, jQuery and the browser DOM, plus a plugin system for custom link types.

Use cases

• autolink urls in user comments
• convert plain text links to clickable html anchors
• detect email addresses in strings
• highlight hashtags and mentions in social media posts
• find all links in a block of text
• render linkified text in react components
• check whether a string is a valid url or email

When to choose

• you need fast, accurate link detection in plain text with a small footprint
• you want framework integrations for React, jQuery or raw DOM
• you need hashtag, mention or custom link format support
• you need multi-language and emoji domain support

When to avoid

• you need full HTML sanitization rather than link detection
• you only need markdown link parsing
• your environment cannot run JavaScript

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser templating ui-components web-development frontend browser cross-platform autolink url-detection hashtags mentions html-links react jquery natural-language-processing nodejs

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