Parse URL from plain text

Question

How can I parse URLs from any give plain text (not limited to href attributes in tags)?

Any code examples in Python will be appreciated.

See near duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/520031/whats-the-cleanest-way-to-extract-urls-from-a-string-using-python — mjv, Apr 29 '10 at 06:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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You could use a Regular Expression to parse the string.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Community

answered Apr 29 '10 at 06:36

Brock Woolf

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '10 at 09:30

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So a Python code example could look like

result = re.findall(r"\b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file)://|www\.|ftp\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|$]", subject)

answered Apr 29 '10 at 09:30

Tim Pietzcker

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