https://github.com/nothingrandom/social-regex

🚦 Regex patterns for social media profiles
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🚦 Regex patterns for social media profiles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nothingrandom/social-regex
• Owner: nothingrandom
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-11-07T09:03:42.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-05-21T13:40:16.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T03:41:49.501Z (17 days ago)
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• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# social-regex

> Regex patterns for social media profiles

This README file lists regex (regular expressions) to match social media profile / platform URLs.

## GitHub

### Usernames

`^(http(s)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?github\.com\/(?!-)(?:[A-z0-9-]){1,39}[^-]\/?$`

Rules:

- Max 39 alphanumerical characters

- Hyphens are allowed, but usernames cannot start or end with one

[regex101 example](https://regex101.com/r/cjlmSt/1)

## Reddit

### Usernames

`^(http(s)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?reddit\.com\/user\/(?:[A-Za-z0-9_-]{3,20})\/?$`

Rules:

- Prefixed by `/user/`

- 3-20 alphanumberical characters

- Hyphens

- Underscores

[regex101 example](https://regex101.com/r/9DERwM/1)

## Instagram

### Usernames

`^(http(s)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?instagram\.com\/([A-Za-z0-9_](?:(?:[A-Za-z0-9_]|(?:\.(?!\.))){0,28}(?:[A-Za-z0-9_]))?)\/?$`

Rules:

- Max 30 alphanumerical characters

- Underscores

- Periods are allowed in singles (. not ..), username cannot start or end with one

[regex101 example](https://regex101.com/r/GaJdb9/6)

## Linkedin

### Public URLS

`^(http(s)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?linkedin\.com\/(in|profile|pub)\/([A-z 0-9 _ -]+)\/?$`

Rules:

- Prefixed by `/in/`, `/profile/`, or `/pub/`

- Alphanumerical

- Hyphens

- Underscores

## Twitter

### Usernames

`^(http(s)?:\/\/)?(www\.)?twitter\.com\/[A-z 0-9 _]{1,15}\/?$`

Rules:

- 15 alphanumerical characters

- Underscores

TODO:

- Facebook

- Dribbble

- Spotify

- Skype

- SoundCloud

- Google Plus

- Telegram

- Phone numbers

- Email

- Medium

- YouTube

- StackOverflow

- Vimeo

- Reddit

- Keybase

- Pinterest