How to get the domainname (name+TLD) from a URL in python

Question

I want to extract the domain name(name of the site+TLD) from a list of URLs which may vary in their format. for instance: Current state---->what I want

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Answer 1

At this time I see six packages doing domain name splitting:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tldextract
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tld
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/publicsuffixlist
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/publicsuffix
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/publicsuffix2
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dnspy

They differ in the way they cache Public Suffix List data (only tldextract uses a JSON file, thereby sparing to parse the list on loading), in the strategy used to download that data, and in the structure they keep in memory (respectively: frozenset, set, set, dictionaries of labels, ditto, dictionary of names) which determines the search algorithm.