parse links into markdown

README.md

@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ A simple tool to help make it easier to turn your tweet rants into real blog pos
 
 ### Running
 Requires `TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY` and `TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET`, both of which you can only get if you have a registered developer account and an application created for twitter.
+
+Example: `/twit2blog -t:1234 -u:alice | pandoc --from=markdown --to=html > thread.html`

src/twit2blogpkg/twitter.nim

@@ -65,14 +65,23 @@ proc getThread*(tweetStart : string, user : string) : seq[string] =
     else:
       return nextTweetID.getThread(user)
 
-proc stripAts(tweet : string) : string =
+proc convertWords(tweet : string) : string =
   let words = tweet.split(" ")
   var stripped : seq[string]
   for word in words:
-    if word[0] != '@':
+    if word.len > 3 and word[0..3] == "http":
+      let parsedUri = word.parseUri
+      let scheme = parsedUri.scheme
+      let hostname = parsedUri.hostname
+      let path = parsedUri.path
+      if (scheme.len > 0 and hostname.len > 0):
+        stripped &= fmt"[{scheme}://{hostname}{path}]({scheme}://{hostname}{path})"
+    elif word[0] != '@':
       stripped &= word
+    else:
+      continue
   stripped.join(" ")
 
 proc renderThread*(tweetID : string, user : string) : string =
-  let thread = tweetID.getThread(user).map(stripAts).map(capitalizeAscii).join("\n\n")
+  let thread = tweetID.getThread(user).map(convertWords).map(capitalizeAscii).join("\n\n")
   fmt"### By {user}" & "\n" & fmt"{thread}"