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

Wrote one up myself:

let regex = /([\w+]+\:\/\/)?([\w\d-]+\.)*[\w-]+[\.\:]\w+([\/\?\=\&\#]?[\w-]+)*\/?/gm

It works on ALL of the following domains:

https://www.facebook.com
https://app-1.number123.com
http://facebook.com
ftp://facebook.com
http://localhost:3000
localhost:3000/
unitedkingdomurl.co.uk
this.is.a.url.com/its/still=going?wow
shop.facebook.org
app.number123.com
app1.number123.com
app-1.numbEr123.com
app.dashes-dash.com
www.facebook.com
facebook.com
fb.com/hello_123
fb.com/hel-lo
fb.com/hello/goodbye
fb.com/hello/goodbye?okay
fb.com/hello/goodbye?okay=alright
Hello www.google.com World http://yahoo.com
https://www.google.com.tr/admin/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
https://google.com.tr/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
http://google.com/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
ftp://google.com/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
www.google.com.tr/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
www.google.com/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
drive.google.com/test/subPage?qs1=sss1&qs2=sss2&qs3=sss3#Services
https://www.example.pl
http://www.example.com
www.example.pl
example.com
http://blog.example.com
http://www.example.com/product
http://www.example.com/products?id=1&page=2
http://www.example.com#up
http://255.255.255.255
255.255.255.255

You can see how it performs here on regex101 and adjust as needed