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flutter_parsed_text

A Flutter package to parse text and make them into multiple Flutter Text widget.

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flutter pub add flutter_parsed_text

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A Flutter package that enables parsing text to automatically convert specific patterns—like URLs, emails, or hashtags—into interactive Text widgets. It simplifies the process of rendering formatted text with clickable elements, enhancing user experience in apps that display dynamic content. The package supports multiple platforms and integrates seamlessly into existing Flutter projects. It is ideal for chat interfaces, social media feeds, or any UI requiring rich text parsing.

Use cases

  • Parsing URLs in chat messages
  • Highlighting hashtags and mentions
  • Creating clickable email links
  • Rendering rich text in social feeds
  • Displaying formatted user-generated content

Key features

  • Automatic detection of URLs, emails, and hashtags
  • Customizable styling for parsed text
  • Supports multiple platform targets
  • Easy integration with existing Text widgets
  • Extensible pattern matching system

Suitable for

  • Chat and messaging apps
  • Social media applications
  • Content-rich UIs with dynamic text
  • Apps needing interactive text elements
  • Developers seeking lightweight text parsing

Considerations

  • May require custom regex for advanced patterns
  • Performance impact with very long texts
  • Limited built-in support for complex formatting
  • Requires careful handling of nested text structures
  • Not optimized for real-time streaming text

Original README

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🔗 Flutter Parsed text

A Flutter package to parse text and extract parts using predefined types like url, phone and email and also supports Regex.

Usage 💻

To use this package, add flutter_parsed_text as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

import 'package:flutter_parsed_text/flutter_parsed_text.dart';

Working ⚙️

ParsedText can receive this paramters & all the RichText parameters:

text: Text that will be parsed and rendered.

style: It takes a TextStyle object as it's property to style all the non links text objects.

parse: Array of MatchText object - used for defining structure for pattern matching .

MatchText(
  type: ParsedType.EMAIL, // predefined type can be any of this ParsedTypes
  style: TextStyle(
    color: Colors.red,
    fontSize: 24,
  ), // custom style to be applied to this matched text
  onTap: (url) {
    // do something here with passed url
  }, // callback funtion when the text is tapped on
),

You can also define a custom pattern like this:

MatchText(
  pattern: r"\B#+([\w]+)\b", // a custom pattern to match
  style: TextStyle(
    color: Colors.pink,
    fontSize: 24,
  ), // custom style to be applied to this matched text
  onTap: (url) async {
  // do something here with passed url
  }, // callback funtion when the text is tapped on
)

You can also set RegexOption for the custom regex pattern like so:

MatchText(
  pattern: r"\B#+([\w]+)\b", // a custom pattern to match
  regexOptions: RegexOptions(
    multiLine : false,
    caseSensitive : false,
    unicode : false,
    dotAll : false
  ),
  style: TextStyle(
    color: Colors.pink,
    fontSize: 24,
  ), // custom style to be applied to this matched text
  onTap: (url) async {
  // do something here with passed url
  }, // callback funtion when the text is tapped on
)

A boolean that show a diffrent text and passes a diffrent text to the callback

eg: Your str is "Mention [@michel:5455345]" where 5455345 is ID of this user which will be passed as parameter to the callback funtion and @michel the value to display on interface. Your pattern for ID & username extraction : /\[(@[^:]+):([^\]]+)\]/i

Displayed text will be : Mention ^^@michel^^

MatchText(
  pattern: r"\[(@[^:]+):([^\]]+)\]",
  style: TextStyle(
    color: Colors.green,
    fontSize: 24,
  ),
  // you must return a map with two keys
  // [display] - the text you want to show to the user
  // [value] - the value underneath it
  renderText: ({String str, String pattern}) {
    Map<String, String> map = Map<String, String>();
    RegExp customRegExp = RegExp(pattern);
    Match match = customRegExp.firstMatch(str);
    map['display'] = match.group(1);
    map['value'] = match.group(2);
    return map;
  },
  onTap: (url) {
    // do something here with passed url
  },
),

Example ✍🏻

Find the complete example wiring in the Flutter_Parsed_Text example application.

A small example of the ParsedText widget.

ParsedText(
  text:
    "[@michael:51515151] Hello this is an example of the ParsedText, links like http://www.google.com or http://www.facebook.com are clickable and phone number 444-555-6666 can call too. But you can also do more with this package, for example Bob will change style and David too. foo@gmail.com And the magic number is 42! #react #react-native",
  parse: <MatchText>[
    MatchText(
      type: ParsedType.EMAIL,
      style: TextStyle(
        color: Colors.red,
        fontSize: 24,
      ),
      onTap: (url) {
        launch("mailto:" + url);
      },
    ),
  ],
)

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API details 👨🏻‍💻

See the flutter_parsed_text.dart for more API details

License ⚖️

Issues and feedback 💭

If you have any suggestion for including a feature or if something doesn't work, feel free to open a Github issue for us to have a discussion on it.

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