Showdown's Twitter Extension

Twitter extension for showdown

Adds support for:

@username   ->  <a href="http://twitter.com/username">@username</a>
#hashtag    ->  <a href="http://twitter.com/search/%23hashtag">#hashtag</a>

Installation

With npm

npm install showdown-twitter

With bower

bower install showdown-twitter

Manual

You can also download the latest release zip or tarball and include it in your webpage, after showdown:

<script src="showdown.min.js">
<script src="showdown-twitter.min.js">

Enabling the extension

After including the extension in your application, you just need to enable it in showdown.

var converter = new showdown.Converter({extensions: ['twitter']});

Example

var converter = new showdown.Converter({extensions: ['twitter']}),
    input = 'This is a tweet from @showdownjs with the hashtag #showdownRules',
    html = converter.makeHtml(input);
    console.log(html);

This should output:

<p>This is a tweet from <a href="http://twitter.com/showdownjs">@showdownjs</a> with the hashtag <a href="http://twitter.com/search/%23showdownRules">#showdownRules</a></p>

License

These files are distributed under BSD license. For more information, please check the LICENSE file in the source code.