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Using Regex To Extract Links.

Learn how to extract URLs from text using regular expressions in Python. Quick regex pattern for matching HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP links.

Muhammad Raza · 1 min read #linux#python

You can extract URLs from a block of text with a single regular expression.

(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/)?[\w/\-?=%.]+\.[\w/\-?=%.]+

This pattern matches HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP links. Here’s a Python script that uses it to pull URLs out of text:

python
text = "<CONTAINING URLS>"
urls = re.findall('(?:(?:https?|ftp):\/\/)?[\w/\-?=%.]+\.[\w/\-?=%.]+', text)
print(urls)