How to extract domain name from url?

Question

How do I extract the domain name from a url using bash? like: http://example.com/ to example.com must work for any tld, not just .com

Answer 1

sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_'

e.g.

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'http://example.com'
example.com

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'https://example.com'
example.com

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'http://example.com:1234/some/path'
example.com

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'http://user:pass@example.com:1234/some/path'
example.com

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'http://user:pass@example.com:1234/some/path#fragment'
example.com

$ sed -E -e 's_.*://([^/@]*@)?([^/:]+).*_\2_' <<< 'http://user:pass@example.com:1234/some/path#fragment?params=true'
example.com