Comments on: Code: Regex for Instagram Username and Hashtags

By: TheBox193

TheBox193 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:30:00 +0000

In reply to Carlos Pinto. Ah you're right! It's the same rules I believe, I've just use the same regex but swap the @ for the #. Or you can combine them like you say. Nice catch!

By: Carlos Pinto

Carlos Pinto — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:17:00 +0000

Hi thanks for providing this. It works well for usernames, but the title is misleading since it doesn’t cover hashtags. You need the or operator in the first segment of the regex: (?:@|#) so that it includes the @ and the #.

By: Regular Expressions | New Life

Regular Expressions | New Life — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:19:13 +0000

[…] Instagram handle ([A-Za-z0-9_](?:(?:[A-Za-z0-9_]|(?:.(?!.))){0,28}(?:[A-Za-z0-9_]))?) from jstassen […]

By: TheBox193

TheBox193 — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:45:00 +0000

In reply to Geo.

@disqus_gm92v83kAy:disqus You should be able to just take off the first section of the regex (?:^|[^w])(?:@).

If you’re parsing text you’re going to need to loop over your text looking for all matches, added them to an array.

Here is an example: http://jsbin.com/rajazurofu/edit?js,console

By: Geo

Geo — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:14:00 +0000

@JStassen, thank you for sharing this. How would you modify if you were to do it without the ‘@’? Infact, if we had to check to make sure that no one had entered the @ to say storing it in the database?

By: Akbar Amani

Akbar Amani — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:16:00 +0000

Thank you so much, This is the best regular expression for Instagram username