CommonRegex

Find all times, dates, links, phone numbers, emails, ip addresses, prices, hex colors, and credit card numbers in a string.
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Pull requests welcome!

Installation

Install via pip

sudo pip install commonregex

or via setup.py

python setup.py install

Usage

>>> from commonregex import CommonRegex
>>> parsed_text = CommonRegex("""John, please get that article on www.linkedin.com to me by 5:00PM 
                               on Jan 9th 2012. 4:00 would be ideal, actually. If you have any 
                               questions, You can reach me at (519)-236-2723x341 or get in touch with
                               my associate at [email protected]""")
>>> parsed_text.times
['5:00PM', '4:00']
>>> parsed_text.dates
['Jan 9th 2012']
>>> parsed_text.links
['www.linkedin.com']
>>> parsed_text.phones
['(519)-236-2727']
>>> parsed_text.phones_with_exts
['(519)-236-2723x341']
>>> parsed_text.emails
['[email protected]']

Alternatively, you can generate a single CommonRegex instance and use it to parse multiple segments of text.

>>> parser = CommonRegex()
>>> parser.times("When are you free?  Do you want to meet up for coffee at 4:00?")
['4:00']

Finally, all regular expressions used are publicly exposed.

>>> from commonregex import email
>>> import re
>>> text = "...get in touch with my associate at [email protected]"
>>> re.sub(email, "[email protected]", text)
'...get in touch with my associate at [email protected]'

>>> from commonregex import time
>>> for m in time.finditer("Does 6:00 or 7:00 work better?"):
>>>     print m.start(), m.group()     
5 6:00 
13 7:00

Please note that this module is currently English/US specific.