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

according to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

extracting url from ANY text (not only HTML)

(http\\://[:/?#\\[\\]@!%$&'()*+,;=a-zA-Z0-9._\\-~]+)