sluggify-rs

Simple slug or clean url generator for Rust.

With new settings, you will get an hyphenized, lowercase, alphanumeric version of any string you please, with any diacritics removed, whitespace and dashes collapsed, and whitespace trimmed. If you are looking for a new feature or notice a bug open a PR or issue on the Github repository and I'll try to get to it as quickly as possible.

Please see the API documentation for available features and examples of how to use them.

Getting started

We explain how to use sluggify step-by-step. Users who already have experience with Rust can skip right to Step 3: Use sluggify in your project. Users who already know sluggify might want to jump right into the modules docs

Step 1: Setting up Rust

Rust can be installed following the instruction for rustup.

Step 2: Setting up a new Rust project

Since sluggify is a library, you need to setup your own new Rust project to use sluggify. With Rust, projects and their dependencies are managed with the builtin package manager Cargo. To create a new Rust project, issue

cargo new hello_world --bin
cd hello_world

in your terminal. The flag --bin tells Cargo to create an executable project instead of a library. In this section of the Rust docs, you find details about what Cargo just created for you.

Your new project can be compiled with

cargo build

If dependencies in your project are out of date, update with

cargo update

Execute the compiled code with

cargo run

If you are new to Rust, we suggest to proceed with learning Rust via the Rust docs.

Step 3: Use sluggify in your project

To use sluggify in your Rust project, add the following to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
sluggify = "0.1.0"

Quick Start

use sluggify::sluggify:: {SluggifyOptions, sluggify};

// Print a web page onto stdout
fn main() {    
    let raw_string = "Welcome to the party fellas!";

    let cleaned_url = sluggify(raw_string, None); 

    println!("Sluggified version of raw string '{}' is '{}'", raw_string, cleaned_url);
    Returns ``` r#Sluggified version of raw string 'Welcome to the party fellas!' is 'welcome-to-the-party-fellas'r# ```

}

Use sluggify with withspace configuration

use sluggify::sluggify:: {SluggifyOptions, sluggify};

// Print a web page onto stdout
//this replaces all whitespace characters with a hyphen '-'
fn main() {    
    let options = SluggifyOptions::new().set_collapse_whitespace(false); //it is true by new

    let raw_string = "a #$b    ** c   \t  \n  d ! ... xyz...23";

    let cleaned_url = sluggify(raw_string, Some(options)); 

    println!("Sluggified version of raw string {} is {}", raw_string, cleaned_url);
}

Use sluggify by overiding forbidden characters

use sluggify::sluggify:: {SluggifyOptions, sluggify};

// Print a web page onto stdout
fn main() {    
    let raw_string = "a #$b    ** c   \t  \n  d";
    let bad_characters = vec!['*','$', '\t'];

    let options = SluggifyOptions::new().set_disallowed_characters(bad_characters);

    let cleaned_url = sluggify(raw_string, Some(options)); 

    println!("Sluggified version of raw string {} is {}", raw_string, cleaned_url);
}

Configure all options at the same time

use sluggify::sluggify:: {SluggifyOptions, sluggify};

// Print a web page onto stdout
fn main() {    
    let raw_string = "a #$b    ** c   \t  \n  d";
    let bad_characters = vec!['*','$', '\t'];

    //don't collapse whitespaces and also look out for these bad characters...
    let options = SluggifyOptions::new().set_collapse_whitespace(false).set_disallowed_characters(chars);

    //pass this option to the sluggify helper
    let cleaned_url = sluggify(raw_string, Some(options)); 

    println!("Sluggified version of raw string {} is {}", raw_string, cleaned_url);
}

Changelog

0.1.0:

• Initial release.

License

MIT License

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