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

Short and simple. I have not tested in javascript code yet but It looks it will work:

((http|ftp|https):\/\/)?(([\w.-]*)\.([\w]*))

Code on regex101.com

Answer 2

Using the regex provided by @JustinLevene did not have the proper escape sequences on the back-slashes. Updated to now be correct, and added in condition to match the FTP protocol as well: Will match to all urls with or without protocols, and with out without "www."

Code: ^((http|ftp|https):\/\/)?([\w_-]+(?:(?:\.[\w_-]+)+))([\w.,@?^=%&:\/~+#-]*[\w@?^=%&\/~+#-])?

Example: https://regex101.com/r/uQ9aL4/65

Answer 3

This is a simplest one. which work for me fine.

%(http|ftp|https|www)(://|\.)[A-Za-z0-9-_\.]*(\.)[a-z]*%

Answer 4

A probably too simplistic, but working method might be:

[localhost|http|https|ftp|file]+://[\w\S(\.|:|/)]+

I tested it on Python and as long as the string parsing contains a space before and after and none in the url (which I have never seen before) it should be fine.

Here is an online ide demonstrating it

However here are some benefits of using it:

• It recognises file: and localhost as well as ip addresses
• It will never match without them
• It does not mind unusual characters such as # or - (see url of this post)

Answer 5

All of the above answers are not match for Unicode characters in URL, for example: http://google.com?query=đức+filan+đã+search

For the solution, this one should work:

(ftp:\/\/|www\.|https?:\/\/){1}[a-zA-Z0-9u00a1-\uffff0-]{2,}\.[a-zA-Z0-9u00a1-\uffff0-]{2,}(\S*)

Answer 6

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