SpeakingURL
===========
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> Generate a slug with a lot of options; create a so-called [Semantic URL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL) or 'Clean URL' or 'Pretty URL' or 'nice-looking URL' or 'Speaking URL' or 'user-friendly URL' or 'SEO-friendly URL' from a string. This module aims to transliterate the input string.
For use in browser and server - no dependencies!
##### NPM Badge
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Installation
------------
#### [npm](https://npmjs.org/package/speakingurl)
```shell
npm install speakingurl --save
```
#### [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com)
```shell
yarn add speakingurl --dev
```
#### [Bower](https://bower.io)
```shell
bower install --save speakingurl
```
#### [Component](https://github.com/component/component)
```shell
component install pid/speakingurl
```
#### [Ruby on Rails](http://rubyonrails.org/)
```ruby
# Add to Gemfile
gem 'speakingurl-rails'
```
#### [Download Package](https://github.com/pid/speakingurl/releases)
copy the file speakingurl.min.js to your script directory
#### [CDN/cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/)
available versions:
- [www.cdnjs.com/libraries/speakingurl/](https://cdnjs.com/libraries/speakingurl/)
- use [//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/speakingurl/13.0.0/speakingurl.min.js](https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/speakingurl/13.0.0/speakingurl.min.js)
#### [CDN/maxcdn](https://www.maxcdn.com/)
available versions:
- [www.jsdelivr.com/#!speakingurl](https://www.jsdelivr.com/#!speakingurl)
- use [//cdn.jsdelivr.net/speakingurl/13.0.0/speakingurl.min.js](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/speakingurl/13.0.0/speakingurl.min.js)
Usage
-----
### getSlug(input, [options]);
`input`: {string} to convert
`options` {object|string} config object or separator string (see below)
- `options` {object}
- `separator` {string} default: '-'
- char that replaces the whitespaces
- `lang` {string|boolean} default: 'en' // ISO 639-1 Codes
- language specific transliteration (
- 'ar' // Arabic
- 'az' // Azerbaijani\*
- 'cs' // Czech
- 'de' // German
- 'dv' // Divehi
- 'en' // English
- 'es' // Spanish
- 'fa' // Persian
- 'fi' // Finnish
- 'fr' // French
- 'ge' // Georgian
- 'gr' // Greek\*
- 'hu' // Hungarian
- 'it' // Italian
- 'lt' // Lithuanian\*
- 'lv' // Latvian
- 'my' // Burmese
- 'mk' // Macedonian\*
- 'nl' // Dutch
- 'pl' // Polish
- 'pt' // Portuguese
- 'ro' // Romanian
- 'ru' // Russian
- 'sv' // Swedish
- 'sk' // Slovak
- 'sr' // Serbian\*
- 'tr' // Turkish
- 'uk' // Ukranian
- 'vn' // Vietnamese
- `symbols` {boolean} default: true
- false -> don't convert symbols
- true -> convert symbols according to the 'lang' setting
- `maintainCase` {boolean} default: false
- true -\> maintain case chars
- false -\> convert all chars to lower case
- `titleCase` {boolean|array} default: false
- true -\> convert input string to title-case
- array -\> titlecase = true, but omit the words from in the array
- `truncate` {number} default: 0
- 0 -\> don't trim length
- \>= 1 -\> trim to max length while not breaking any words
- `uric` {boolean} default: false
- true -\> additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "\$", ",", "/"
- false
- `uricNoSlash` {boolean} default: false
- true -\> additionally allow chars: ";", "?", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "\$", ","
- `mark` {boolean} default: false
- true -\> additionally allow chars: "-", "\_", ".", "!", "~", "\*", "'", "(", ")"
- `custom` {object|array} default: {}
- object -\> custom map for translation, overwrites all i.e. { '&': '\#', '\*': ' star ' }
- array -\> add chars to allowed charMap (see example)
- `options` {string} separator
notes: default only Base64 chars are allowed (/A-Za-z0-9\_-/), setting `uric`, `uricNoSlash` or/and `mark` to `true` will add the specified chars to the list of allowed characters. The separator-character is always allowed.
##### Node.js
```js
var getSlug = require('speakingurl');
```
##### Browser
```html
<script src="bower_components/speakingurl/speakingurl.min.js"></script>
```
#### Ruby on Rails
```ruby
# Add to application.js
//= require speakingurl
```
#### Examples
```js
var 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("မြန်မာ သာဓက", {
lang: 'my'
});
console.log(slug); // Output: myanma-thadak
slug = getSlug('މިއަދަކީ ހދ ރީތި ދވހކވ', {
lang: 'dv'
});
console.log(slug); // Output: miadhakee hd reethi dvhkv
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
slug = getSlug('Foo and Bar or Baz', {
custom: {
'and': 'und',
'or': ''
}
});
console.log(slug); // Output: foo-und-bar-baz
slug = getSlug('[Knöpfe]', {
custom: [
'[',
']'
]
});
console.log(slug); // Output: [knoepfe]
slug = getSlug('NEXUS4 only $299');
console.log(slug); // Output: nexus-4-only-usd299
slug = getSlug('NEXUS4 only €299', {
maintainCase: true
});
console.log(slug); // Output: NEXUS-4-only-EUR299
slug = getSlug('Don\'t drink and drive', {
titleCase: true
});
console.log(slug); // Output: Don-t-Drink-And-Drive
slug = getSlug('Don\'t drink and drive', {
titleCase: ['and']
});
console.log(slug); // Output: Don-t-Drink-and-Drive
slug = getSlug('Foo & Bar ♥ Foo < Bar', {
lang: false
});
console.log(slug); // Output: foo-bar-foo-bar
slug = getSlug('Foo & Bar ♥ Foo < Bar', {
symbols: false
});
console.log(slug); // Output: foo-bar-foo-bar
slug = getSlug('ä♥ä', {
lang: 'tr',
symbols: false
});
console.log(slug); // Output: a
```
### createSlug([options])
`options`: {object|string} config object or separator string (see above)
Create your own specially configured function.
```js
var options = {
maintainCase: true,
separator: '_'
};
var mySlug = require('speakingurl').createSlug(options);
// in browser:
// var mySlug = createSlug(options);
var slug = mySlug("Schöner Titel läßt grüßen!? Bel été !");
console.log(slug); // Output: Schoener_Titel_laesst_gruessen_Bel_ete
```
Create your own specially configured function with title-case feature.
```js
var options = {
titleCase: [
"a","an","and","as","at","but",
"by","en","for","if","in","nor",
"of","on","or","per","the","to","vs"
]
};
var mySlug = require('speakingurl').createSlug(options);
// in browser:
// var mySlug = createSlug(options);
var slug = mySlug('welcome to the jungle');
console.log(slug); // Output: Welcome-to-the-Jungle
```
Changelog
---------
see [CHANGELOG.md](https://raw.github.com/pid/speakingurl/master/CHANGELOG.md)
Tests
-----
[](https://travis-ci.org/pid/speakingurl)
```shell
npm test
```
Contribution
------------
```shell
# fork pid/speakingurl on Github
$ git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_USER>/speakingurl.git
$ cd speakingurl
$ npm install
# add your stuff
# add tests
# add example for new feature
# add release info to CHANGELOG.md
# add description/example to README.md
$ gulp
$ commit files (speakingurl.min.js,...)
# if everything works fine, commit, push to your repository
# create pull request
```
Release
-------
```shell
$ gulp bumpup --patch # --minor # --major
$ gulp
$ gulp release
```
Release to RubyGems.org
-----------------------
```shell
$ gulp
$ gem build speakingurl-rails.gemspec
$ gem push speakingurl-rails-x.x.x.gem
```
References
----------
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration
Use in other environments
-------------------------
- [SpeakingURL with AngularJS](https://github.com/zappan/angular-speakingurl)
- [SpeakingURL with Meteor](https://github.com/ongoworks/meteor-speakingurl)
- [SpeakingURL with Ruby on Rails](https://rubygems.org/gems/speakingurl-rails)
Ports
-----
- Java https://github.com/Weltraumschaf/speakingurl thanks to[@Weltraumschaf](https://github.com/Weltraumschaf/)
Credits
-------
- [@dypsilon](https://github.com/dypsilon/)
- [@simov](https://github.com/simov/)
- [@henrikjoreteg](https://github.com/henrikjoreteg/)
[License](https://raw.github.com/pid/speakingurl/master/LICENSE)
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