I’m moving a large blog from WordPress to another platform, and I am trying to re-create WordPress shortcodes with Javascript.
I’ve been able to write the Regex to replace [youtube]
‘s shortcodes without problems, but I’m having problems with [soundcloud]
‘s.
The format of the shortcode is the following:
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33660734”]
I created the following Regex rule, that seems to work on Regex 101
[soundcloud url="http(s?)://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"(s*?)]
https://regex101.com/r/JKL45q/2
But when I include it in my script:
{
service: 'soundcloud',
regex: new RegExp('[soundcloud url="http(s?)://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"(s*?)]', 'ig'),
},
I get this error, which I can’t understand:
main.js:29 Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /[soundcloud url="http(s?)://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"(s*?)]/: Unmatched ')' (at main.js:29:14)
at new RegExp (<anonymous>)
at main.js:29:14
at main.js:142:3
The source script is here:
https://hotmc.pages.dev/assets/js/main.js
This is a page where the error occurs in the console:
https://hotmc.pages.dev/2011/01/10/esclusivo-anteprima-album-micha-soul-un-brano-in-free-download
Can anyone help? I found other questions about this error, but haven’t been able to apply the suggested fixes.
Thank you in advance,
S.
2
Answers
I have been able to get rid of the error by changing hot the RegExp object is initialized.
From this:
new RegExp('[soundcloud url="http(s?)://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"(s*?)]', 'ig')
To this:
new RegExp(/[soundcloud url="http(s?)://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/([a-zA-Z0-9]*)"(s*?)]/, 'ig')
I think you can remove the
()
of the([a-zA-Z0-9]*)