Python regular expression again - match url

Question

I have such regexp:

 re.compile(r\"((https?):((//)|(\\\\\\\\))+[\\w\\d:#@%/;$()~_?\\+-=\\\\\\.&]*)\", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)

But that

Answer 1

It could be very long but in practice mine works pretty good. Please try this one ((http|https)\:\/\/)?[a-zA-Z0-9\.\/\?\:@\-_=#]+\.([a-zA-Z]){2,6}([a-zA-Z0-9\.\&\/\?\:@\-_=#])*

It matches all of the example below

http://wwww.stackoverflow.com
abc.com
http://test.test-75.1474.stackoverflow.com/
stackoverflow.com/
stackoverflow.com
rfordyce@broadviewnet.com
http://www.example.com/etcetc
www.example.com/etcetc
example.com/etcetc
user:pass@example.com/etcetc
(www.itmag.com)
example.com/etcetc?query=aasd
example.com/etcetc?query=aasd&dest=asds
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6427530/regular-expression-pattern-to-
match-url-with
www/Christina.V.Scott@gmail.com
line.lundvoll.nilsen@telemed.no.
s.hossain@unsw.edu.au 
s.hossain@unsw.edu.au     

Answer 2

This is a common problem, use default libraries.

For python use urlparse

Answer 3

I'll admit that I'm a little bit worried about an application that requires a regex like that to match URLs. That said, this seems to work for me:

((https?):((//)|(\\\\))+([\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&](#!)?)*)

Answer 4

Don't try to make your own regular expression for matching URLs, use someone else's who has already solved such problems, like this one.