From 8130de442438d3ecd72b73a97dd5d25db6fffa87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zechs <vijay.vky2002@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 14:05:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Remove links from text

---
 video_creation/voices.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/video_creation/voices.py b/video_creation/voices.py
index 86bacd4..ea2d790 100644
--- a/video_creation/voices.py
+++ b/video_creation/voices.py
@@ -13,11 +13,16 @@ def sanitize_text(reddit_obj):
 
     What gets removed:
     - following characters`^_~@!&;#:-%“”‘"%*/{}[]()\|<>?=+`
+    - any http or https links
     """
 
+    # remove any urls from the text
+    regex_urls = r"((http|https)://[^\s]+)"
+    result = re.sub(regex_urls, " ", reddit_obj)
+
     # note: not removing apostrophes
     regex_expr = r"\s['|’]|['|’]\s|[\^_~@!&;#:\-%“”‘\"%\*/{}\[\]\(\)\\|<>=+]"
-    result = re.sub(regex_expr, " ", reddit_obj)
+    result = re.sub(regex_expr, " ", result)
 
     # remove extra whitespace
     return " ".join(result.split())