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nofollow filter

Author:
svetlyak
Posted:
July 13, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Score:
7 (after 9 ratings)

This filter add extra attribute rel="nofollow" to any "<a ..." element in the value, which does not contain it already. I use this to filter comments text in my blog.

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from django.template import Library
import re

register = Library()

r_nofollow = re.compile('<a (?![^>]*nofollow)')
s_nofollow = '<a rel="nofollow" '

def nofollow(value):
    return r_nofollow.sub(s_nofollow, value)

register.filter(nofollow)

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Comments

polarbear (on July 24, 2007):

You can use also jQuery like:

$(".comment a").attr({rel: "nofollow"});

to add rel="nofollow" attribute to all a within class .comment

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luckystarr (on September 7, 2007):

@polarbear

This would not work. I doubt that Google interprets JavaScript to check if it may or may not contribute the current sites pagerank to a link.

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muffinresearch (on July 3, 2008):

One small issue with this is that the regex doesn't match when you just add the text "nofollow" somewhere in one of the links being tested e.g: an href with a fragment-identifier like so: "blah.com#nofollow"

The following regex prevents bypassing the filter in this way

re.compile('<a (?![^>]*rel=["\']nofollow[\'"])')

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muhuk (on April 9, 2009):

building on muffinresearch's regex:

<a (?![^>]*rel=["\']nofollow[\'"])(?=[^>]*href=["\']http)

This matches only internal links. (hopefully)

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