Extract hostname name from string

Question

I would like to match just the root of a URL and not the whole URL from a text string. Given:

http://www.youtube.co         


        

Answer 1

Parse-Urls appears to be the JavaScript library with the most robust patterns

Here is a rundown of the features:

Chapter 1. Normalize or parse one URL

Chapter 2. Extract all URLs

Chapter 3. Extract URIs with certain names

Chapter 4. Extract all fuzzy URLs

Chapter 5. Highlight all URLs in texts

Chapter 6. Extract all URLs in raw HTML or XML