CommonRegex Improved (crim)

An improved version of commonly used regular expressions in Python

Inspired by and improved upon CommonRegex

This is a collection of commonly used regular expressions. This library provides a simple API interface to match the strings corresponding to specified patterns.

Installation

pip install --upgrade commonregex-improved

Usage

import crim as CommonRegex

text = "John, please get that article on www.linkedin.com to me by 5:00PM on Jan 9th 2012. 4:00 would be ideal, actually or 5:30 P.M. If you have any questions, You can reach me at (519)-236-2723x341 or get in touch with my associate at harold_smith@gmail.com. You can find my ip address at 127.0.0.1 or at 64.248.67.225. I also have a secret protected with md5 8a2292371ee60f8212096c06fe3335fd. The internal webpage to get the article from is https://internal.sharepoint.edu.au"

date_list = CommonRegex.dates(text)
# ['Jan 9th 2012']
time_list = CommonRegex.times(text)
# ['5:00PM', '4:00 ', '5:30 P.M.']
url_list = CommonRegex.links(text)
# ['www.linkedin.com', 'gmail.com', 'https://internal.sharepoint.edu.au']
phone_list = CommonRegex.phones_with_exts(text)  
# ['(519)-236-2723x341']
ip_list = CommonRegex.ips(text)
# ['127.0.0.1', '64.248.67.225']
email_list = CommonRegex.emails(text)
# ['harold_smith@gmail.com']
md5_list = CommonRegex.md5_hashes(text)
# ['8a2292371ee60f8212096c06fe3335fd']

⚔️ Performance benchmark

CommonRegex is awesome!

So why re-implement the popular original commonregex project? The API calls to each of the regular expressions are really slow.

It takes 12 seconds for a total of 2999 calls to Dates function in the original version of CommonRegex. While the improved version of CommonRegex with the same number of calls merely takes 2 seconds.

You can find more detailed results about original and improved versions.

Features / Supported Methods

• dates(text: str)
• times(text: str)
• phones(text: str)
• phones_with_exts(text: str)
• links(text: str)
• emails(text: str)
• ipv4s(text: str)
• ipv6s(text: str)
• ips(text: str)
• not_known_ports(text: str)
• prices(text: str)
• hex_colors(text: str)
• credit_cards(text: str)
• visa_cards(text: str)
• master_cards(text: str)
• btc_address(text: str)
• street_addresses(text: str)
• zip_codes(text: str)
• po_boxes(text: str)
• ssn_numbers(text: str)
• md5_hashes(text: str)
• sha1_hashes(text: str)
• sha256_hashes(text: str)
• isbn13s(text: str)
• isbn10s(text: str)
• mac_addresses(text: str)
• iban_numbers(text: str)
• git_repos(text: str)