Regular expression for parsing links from a webpage?

Question

I\'m looking for a .NET regular expression extract all the URLs from a webpage but haven\'t found one to be comprehensive enough to cover all the different ways you can spec

Answer 1

from the RegexBuddy library:

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The final character class makes sure that if an URL is part of some text, punctuation such as a comma or full stop after the URL is not interpreted as part of the URL.

\b(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]