diff --git a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/cleanIrcMessage.ts b/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/cleanIrcMessage.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e4fdf35..00000000
--- a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/cleanIrcMessage.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-const matchFormatting =
-	/\x02|\x1D|\x1F|\x16|\x0F|\x11|\x1E|\x03(?:[0-9]{1,2}(?:,[0-9]{1,2})?)?|\x04(?:[0-9a-f]{6}(?:,[0-9a-f]{6})?)?/gi;
-
-export default (message: string) => message.replace(matchFormatting, "").trim();
diff --git a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/findLinks.ts b/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/findLinks.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 15c38be9..00000000
--- a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/findLinks.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-import LinkifyIt, {Match} from "linkify-it";
-import {Part} from "./merge";
-
-export type LinkPart = Part & {
-	link: string;
-};
-
-type OurMatch = Match & {
-	noschema?: boolean;
-};
-
-LinkifyIt.prototype.normalize = function normalize(match: OurMatch) {
-	if (!match.schema) {
-		match.schema = "http:";
-		match.url = "http://" + match.url;
-		match.noschema = true;
-	}
-
-	if (match.schema === "//") {
-		match.schema = "http:";
-		match.url = "http:" + match.url;
-		match.noschema = true;
-	}
-
-	if (match.schema === "mailto:" && !/^mailto:/i.test(match.url)) {
-		match.url = "mailto:" + match.url;
-	}
-};
-
-import tlds from "tlds";
-const linkify = LinkifyIt().tlds(tlds).tlds("onion", true);
-
-// Known schemes to detect in text
-const commonSchemes = [
-	"sftp",
-	"smb",
-	"file",
-	"irc",
-	"ircs",
-	"svn",
-	"git",
-	"steam",
-	"mumble",
-	"ts3server",
-	"svn+ssh",
-	"ssh",
-	"gopher",
-	"gemini",
-];
-
-for (const schema of commonSchemes) {
-	linkify.add(schema + ":", "http:");
-}
-
-function findLinks(text: string) {
-	const matches = linkify.match(text) as OurMatch[];
-
-	if (!matches) {
-		return [];
-	}
-
-	return matches.map(returnUrl);
-}
-
-function findLinksWithSchema(text: string) {
-	const matches = linkify.match(text) as OurMatch[];
-
-	if (!matches) {
-		return [];
-	}
-
-	return matches.filter((url) => !url.noschema).map(returnUrl);
-}
-
-function returnUrl(url: OurMatch): LinkPart {
-	return {
-		start: url.index,
-		end: url.lastIndex,
-		link: url.url,
-	};
-}
-
-export {findLinks, findLinksWithSchema};
diff --git a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/merge.ts b/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/merge.ts
index 9c728cec..707c495d 100644
--- a/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/merge.ts
+++ b/client/js/helpers/ircmessageparser/merge.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import anyIntersection from "./anyIntersection";
 import fill from "./fill";
 import {ChannelPart} from "./findChannels";
 import {EmojiPart} from "./findEmoji";
-import {LinkPart} from "./findLinks";
+import {LinkPart} from "../../../../shared/linkify";
 import {NamePart} from "./findNames";
 
 export type Part = {
diff --git a/client/js/helpers/parse.ts b/client/js/helpers/parse.ts
index b120d70f..e69067a4 100644
--- a/client/js/helpers/parse.ts
+++ b/client/js/helpers/parse.ts
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 
 import {h as createElement, VNode} from "vue";
 import parseStyle from "./ircmessageparser/parseStyle";
-import findChannels, {ChannelPart} from "./ircmessageparser/findChannels";
-import {findLinks, LinkPart} from "./ircmessageparser/findLinks";
-import findEmoji, {EmojiPart} from "./ircmessageparser/findEmoji";
-import findNames, {NamePart} from "./ircmessageparser/findNames";
-import merge, {MergedParts, Part} from "./ircmessageparser/merge";
+import findChannels from "./ircmessageparser/findChannels";
+import {findLinks} from "../../../shared/linkify";
+import findEmoji from "./ircmessageparser/findEmoji";
+import findNames from "./ircmessageparser/findNames";
+import merge, {MergedParts} from "./ircmessageparser/merge";
 import emojiMap from "./fullnamemap.json";
 import LinkPreviewToggle from "../../components/LinkPreviewToggle.vue";
 import LinkPreviewFileSize from "../../components/LinkPreviewFileSize.vue";
diff --git a/client/js/socket-events/msg.ts b/client/js/socket-events/msg.ts
index 523b2f56..4bb5e7c4 100644
--- a/client/js/socket-events/msg.ts
+++ b/client/js/socket-events/msg.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/restrict-plus-operands */
 import socket from "../socket";
-import cleanIrcMessage from "../helpers/ircmessageparser/cleanIrcMessage";
+import {cleanIrcMessage} from "../../../shared/irc";
 import {store} from "../store";
 import {switchToChannel} from "../router";
 import {ClientChan, ClientMention, ClientMessage, NetChan} from "../types";
diff --git a/client/tsconfig.json b/client/tsconfig.json
index f5434d2c..4054c4f1 100644
--- a/client/tsconfig.json
+++ b/client/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {
   "extends": "../tsconfig.base.json" /* Path to base configuration file to inherit from. Requires TypeScript version 2.1 or later. */,
   "include": [
-    "./**/*"
+    "./**/*",
+    "../shared"
   ] /* Specifies a list of glob patterns that match files to be included in compilation. If no 'files' or 'include' property is present in a tsconfig.json, the compiler defaults to including all files in the containing directory and subdirectories except those specified by 'exclude'. Requires TypeScript version 2.0 or later. */,
   "files": [
     "../package.json",
diff --git a/webpack.config.ts b/webpack.config.ts
index b103b2a4..02a7ca54 100644
--- a/webpack.config.ts
+++ b/webpack.config.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const config: webpack.Configuration = {
 			},
 			{
 				test: /\.ts$/i,
-				include: [path.resolve(__dirname, "client")],
+				include: [path.resolve(__dirname, "client"), path.resolve(__dirname, "shared")],
 				exclude: path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules"),
 				use: {
 					loader: "babel-loader",