Removing HTTP and WWW from URL python

Question

url1=\'www.google.com\'
url2=\'http://www.google.com\'
url3=\'http://google.com\'
url4=\'www.google\'
url5=\'http://www.google.com/images\'
url6=\'https://www.youtub         


        

Answer 1

A more elegant solution would be using urlparse:

from urllib.parse import urlparse

def get_hostname(url, uri_type='both'):
    """Get the host name from the url"""
    parsed_uri = urlparse(url)
    if uri_type == 'both':
        return '{uri.scheme}://{uri.netloc}/'.format(uri=parsed_uri)
    elif uri_type == 'netloc_only':
        return '{uri.netloc}'.format(uri=parsed_uri)

The first option includes https or http, depending on the link, and the second part netloc includes what you were looking for.