How to match a URL containing emojis using a regex?

Question

How can I write a regular expression to match URLs that contain emojis? The regex should match ordinary alphanumeric URLs along with URLs containing emojis in the domain nam

Answer 1

This regular expression matches ordinary alphanumeric URLs along with URLs containing emojis in the domain name, path and/or parameters:

https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9\u1F60-\uFFFF@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,256}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9\u1F60-\uFFFF@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)

Try it out here: https://regexr.com/3gsl9

Notice that the range of unicode characters that include emojis (i.e. \uXXXX-\uXXXX) might need to be updated in future when new emojis will be added.