Regular expression to find URLs within a string

Question

Does anyone know of a regular expression I could use to find URLs within a string? I\'ve found a lot of regular expressions on Google for determining if an entire string is

Answer 1

text = """The link of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6038061/regular-expression-to-find-urls-within-a-string
Also there are some urls: www.google.com, facebook.com, http://test.com/method?param=wasd
The code below catches all urls in text and returns urls in list."""

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

Output:

[
    'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6038061/regular-expression-to-find-urls-within-a-string', 
    'www.google.com', 
    'facebook.com',
    'http://test.com/method?param=wasd'
]