Regular expression to find URLs within a string

Question

Does anyone know of a regular expression I could use to find URLs within a string? I\'ve found a lot of regular expressions on Google for determining if an entire string is

Answer 1

IMPROVED

Detects Urls like these:

• https://www.example.pl
• http://www.example.com
• www.example.pl
• example.com
• http://blog.example.com
• http://www.example.com/product
• http://www.example.com/products?id=1&page=2
• http://www.example.com#up
• http://255.255.255.255
• 255.255.255.255
• http:// www.site.com:8008

Regex:

/^(?:http(s)?:\/\/)?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w\.-]+)+[\w\-\._~:/?#[\]@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=.]+$/gm