How to remove any URL within a string in Python

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I want to remove all URLs inside a string  replace them with     I searched around but couldn t really find what I want   Example   text1 text2 http   url com bla1 blah1  text3 text4 http   url com bla2 blah2  text5 text6 http   url com bla3 blah3    I want the result to be   text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6

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Removal of HTTP links URLs mixed up in any text   import re re sub r     i  b    https     www d 0 3      a-z0-9  -      a-z  2 4         s   lt  gt          s   lt  gt          s   lt  gt                     s   lt  gt          s   lt  gt              s                 lt  gt                               text

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I know this has already been answered and its stupid late but I think this should be here  This is a regex that matches any kind of url                   It can be used like   re sub                   sentence

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The following regular expression in Python works well for detecting URL s  in the text   source text       text1 text2 http   url com bla1 blah1  text3 text4 http   url com bla2 blah2  text5 text6         import re url reg    r  a-z        S   result     re sub url reg      source text  print result    Output   text1 text2  text3 text4  text5 text6

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the shortest way   re sub r http S        stringliteral

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I wasn t able to find any that handled my particular situation  which was removing urls in the middle of tweets that also have whitespaces in the middle of urls so I made my own      https         s   www      s     w  s         w - s         w -           w s    s   w   amp        here s an explanation   https        matches http    or https      s   optional whitespaces  www     optionally matches www    s   optionally matches whitespaces    w  s       matches 0 or more of one or more word characters followed by a period    w - s       matches 0 or more of one or more words or a dash or a space  followed by        w -    any remaining path at the end of the url followed by an optional ending         w s    s   w   amp      matches ending query params  even with white spaces etc     test this out here https   regex101 com r NmVGOo 8

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In order to remove any URL within a string in Python  you can use this RegEx function   import re  def remove URL text        quot  quot  quot Remove URLs from a text string quot  quot  quot      return re sub r quot http S  quot    quot  quot   text

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import re s       text1 text2 http   url com bla1 blah1  text3 text4 http   url com bla2 blah2  text5 text6 http   url com bla3 blah3     g   re findall r  text d    s  print   list  g  for i in g      print  i    Out  list   text1    text2    text3    text4    text5    text6   text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6

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This worked for me   import re thestring    text1 ntext2 nhttp   url com bla1 blah1  ntext3 ntext4 nhttp   url com bla2 blah2  ntext5 ntext6   URLless string   re sub r  w     2   d w-       d w-               s             thestring  print URLless string   Result   text1 text2  text3 text4  text5 text6

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This solution caters for http  https and the other normal url type special characters    import re def remove urls  vTEXT       vTEXT   re sub r  https http         w               amp       b       vTEXT  flags re MULTILINE      return vTEXT    print  remove urls  this is a test https   sdfs sdfsdf com sdfsdf sdfsdf sd sdfsdfs bob  20tree amp jef man lets see this too https   sdfsdf fdf com sdf f end

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Python script   import re text   re sub r  https          r n         text  flags re MULTILINE    Output   text1 text2 text3 text4 text5 text6   Test this code here

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What you really want to do is to remove any string that starts with either http    or https    plus any combination of non white space characters  Here is how I would solve it  My solution is very similar to that of  tolgayilmaz   Define the text from which you want to replace the url with     text     The link to this post is https   stackoverflow com questions 11331982 how-to-remove-any-url-within-a-string-in-python     import re  Either use  re sub  http    S  https    S        text   OR  re sub  http s      S        text    And the result of running either code above is    gt  gt  gt   The link to this post is     I prefer the second one because it is more readable

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You could also look at it from the other way around     from urlparse import urlparse  el for el in   text1    FTP   somewhere com    text2    http   blah com 8080 foo bar header   if not urlparse el  scheme

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