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This package provides a Laravel integration for the SharpAPI URL Detection service. It allows you to automatically detect and extract URLs from text content, which is perfect for content moderation, data extraction, and link validation.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require sharpapi/laravel-content-detect-urls

Configuration

Publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="sharpapi-content-detect-urls"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'api_key' => env('SHARP_API_KEY'),
    'base_url' => env('SHARP_API_BASE_URL', 'https://sharpapi.com/api/v1'),
    'api_job_status_polling_wait' => env('SHARP_API_JOB_STATUS_POLLING_WAIT', 180),
    'api_job_status_polling_interval' => env('SHARP_API_JOB_STATUS_POLLING_INTERVAL', 10),
    'api_job_status_use_polling_interval' => env('SHARP_API_JOB_STATUS_USE_POLLING_INTERVAL', false),
];

Make sure to set your SharpAPI key in your .env file:

SHARP_API_KEY=your-api-key

Usage

use SharpAPI\ContentDetectUrls\ContentDetectUrlsService;

$service = new ContentDetectUrlsService();

// Detect URLs in text
$detectedUrls = $service->detectUrls(
    'Check out these websites: example.com, https://github.com, and www.laravel.com/docs'
);

// $detectedUrls will contain a JSON string with the detected URLs

Parameters

• text (string): The text content to analyze for URLs

Response Format

The response is a JSON string containing an array of detected URLs with their protocols:

[
  {
    "url": "http://example.com",
    "protocol": "http"
  },
  {
    "url": "https://github.com",
    "protocol": "https"
  },
  {
    "url": "http://www.laravel.com/docs",
    "protocol": "http"
  }
]

Features

• Automatically detects URLs in text content
• Works with various URL formats (with or without protocol, with or without www)
• Identifies the protocol for each URL
• Handles URLs with different TLDs (.com, .org, .io, etc.)
• Useful for content moderation, data extraction, and link validation

Credits

• Dawid Makowski
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.