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Instagram Mentions Allows Periods #343
Description
Hi Elias,
Comments on Instagram that include mentions with periods are currently truncated on advertools.__version__ = 0.14.2.
Example: @elias.dabbas -> [@elias]
I propose adding adding a . to the MENTIONS in the REGEX module.
MENTION = re.compile(
r"""(?i) # case-insensitive
(?<!\w) # word character doesn't precede mention
([@＠] # either of two @ signs
[a-z0-9_.]+) # A to Z, numbers and underscores AND PERIODS only
\b # end with a word boundary
""", re.VERBOSE)This change works for me, but I haven't tested edge cases or other social media platforms.
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eliasdabbas commentedon Mar 10, 2024
Good point!
The edge case I can think of is someone mentioning someone at the end of a sentence and not adding a space at the end:
"Nice post by @username.Check it out" --> [@username.Check]
If the period is followed by a space then we can make sure the regex doesn't match it, only if word characters follow it.
Are there other characters that need to be handled?
Thanks for reporting.