fix: improve URL regex to preserve bracketed URLs

bacalj · bacalj · commit 55b3bbd0c284 · 2025-08-27T12:29:28.000-04:00
Makes URL processing more
conservative and respectful of existing formatting.
diff --git a/src/utils/getProcessedText.js b/src/utils/getProcessedText.js
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ export const getProcessedText = (text) => {
   }
 
   // Regex to match URLs that are NOT already in markdown or HTML link format
-  // This looks for URLs that are not preceded by ]( or href=" and not followed by )
-  const urlRegex = /(?<!\]\(|href=["'])https?:\/\/[^\s\[\]()]+(?![)\]])/gi;
+  // This looks for URLs that are not preceded by ]( or href=" or [ and not followed by ) or ]
+  const urlRegex = /(?<!\]\(|href=["']|\[)https?:\/\/[^\s\[\]()]+(?![)\]])/gi;
 
   // Replace bare URLs with markdown links
   const processedText = text.replace(urlRegex, (url) => {

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ export const getProcessedText = (text) => {`
`9`	`9`	`}`
`10`	`10`
`11`	`11`	`// Regex to match URLs that are NOT already in markdown or HTML link format`
`12`		`- // This looks for URLs that are not preceded by ]( or href=" and not followed by )`
`13`		`- const urlRegex = /(?<!\]\(\|href=["'])https?:\/\/[^\s\[\]()]+(?![)\]])/gi;`
	`12`	`+ // This looks for URLs that are not preceded by ]( or href=" or [ and not followed by ) or ]`
	`13`	`+ const urlRegex = /(?<!\]\(\|href=["']\|\[)https?:\/\/[^\s\[\]()]+(?![)\]])/gi;`
`14`	`14`
`15`	`15`	`// Replace bare URLs with markdown links`
`16`	`16`	`const processedText = text.replace(urlRegex, (url) => {`