Description

• Input: a chat message (string)
• Output: JSON describing the message's special content (string)

Special Content

Mentions

• Format: @username
• Description: a way to mention a user, always starts with an '@' and ends when hitting a non-word character
• Reference: How do @mentions work? – Help Center

Emoticons

• Format: (emoticonname)
• Description: ASCII strings representing 'custom' emoticons, no longer than 15 characters, contained in parenthesis (you can assume that anything matching this format is an emoticon)
• Reference: HipChat - Emoticons

Links

• Format: http(s)://...
• Description: any URLs contained in the message, along with the page's title

Examples

See test cases in test/test_hip_chat.py

Test

1. sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
2. py.test