Given the URL (single line):
http://test.example.com/dir/subdir/file.html
How can I extract the following parts using regular expressions:
The regex should work correctly even if I enter the following URL:
http://example.example.com/example/example/example.html
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language-agnostic
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Try the following:
^((ht|f)tp(s?)\:\/\/|~/|/)?([\w]+:\w+@)?([a-zA-Z]{1}([\w\-]+\.)+([\w]{2,5}))(:[\d]{1,5})?((/?\w+/)+|/?)(\w+\.[\w]{3,4})?((\?\w+=\w+)?(&\w+=\w+)*)?
It supports HTTP / FTP, subdomains, folders, files etc.
I found it from a quick google search:
http://geekswithblogs.net/casualjim/archive/2005/12/01/61722.aspx
regexp to get the URL path without the file.
url = 'http://domain/dir1/dir2/somefile' url.scan(/^(http://[^/]+)((?:/[^/]+)+(?=/))?/?(?:[^/]+)?$/i).to_s
It can be useful for adding a relative path to this url.
I found the highest voted answer (hometoast's answer) doesn't work perfectly for me. Two problems:
The following is a modified version:
^((http[s]?|ftp):\/)?\/?([^:\/\s]+)(:([^\/]*))?((\/\w+)*\/)([\w\-\.]+[^#?\s]+)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?$
Position of parts are as follows:
int SCHEMA = 2, DOMAIN = 3, PORT = 5, PATH = 6, FILE = 8, QUERYSTRING = 9, HASH = 12
Edit posted by anon user:
function getFileName(path) {
return path.match(/^((http[s]?|ftp):\/)?\/?([^:\/\s]+)(:([^\/]*))?((\/[\w\/-]+)*\/)([\w\-\.]+[^#?\s]+)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?$/i)[8];
}
I would recommend not using regex. An API call like WinHttpCrackUrl() is less error prone.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384092%28VS.85%29.aspx
I tried this regex for parsing url partitions:
^((http[s]?|ftp):\/)?\/?([^:\/\s]+)(:([^\/]*))?((\/?(?:[^\/\?#]+\/+)*)([^\?#]*))(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?$
URL: https://www.google.com/my/path/sample/asd-dsa/this?key1=value1&key2=value2
Matches:
Group 1. 0-7 https:/
Group 2. 0-5 https
Group 3. 8-22 www.google.com
Group 6. 22-50 /my/path/sample/asd-dsa/this
Group 7. 22-46 /my/path/sample/asd-dsa/
Group 8. 46-50 this
Group 9. 50-74 ?key1=value1&key2=value2
Group 10. 51-74 key1=value1&key2=value2
/^((?P<scheme>https?|ftp):\/)?\/?((?P<username>.*?)(:(?P<password>.*?)|)@)?(?P<hostname>[^:\/\s]+)(?P<port>:([^\/]*))?(?P<path>(\/\w+)*\/)(?P<filename>[-\w.]+[^#?\s]*)?(?P<query>\?([^#]*))?(?P<fragment>#(.*))?$/
From my answer on a similar question. Works better than some of the others mentioned because they had some bugs (such as not supporting username/password, not supporting single-character filenames, fragment identifiers being broken).
You can get all the http/https, host, port, path as well as query by using Uri object in .NET. just the difficult task is to break the host into sub domain, domain name and TLD.
There is no standard to do so and can't be simply use string parsing or RegEx to produce the correct result. At first, I am using RegEx function but not all URL can be parse the subdomain correctly. The practice way is to use a list of TLDs. After a TLD for a URL is defined the left part is domain and the remaining is sub domain.
However the list need to maintain it since new TLDs is possible. The current moment I know is publicsuffix.org maintain the latest list and you can use domainname-parser tools from google code to parse the public suffix list and get the sub domain, domain and TLD easily by using DomainName object: domainName.SubDomain, domainName.Domain and domainName.TLD.
This answers also helpfull: Get the subdomain from a URL
CaLLMeLaNN
I build this one. Very permissive it's not to check url juste divide it.
^((http[s]?):\/\/)?([a-zA-Z0-9-.]*)?([\/]?[^?#\n]*)?([?]?[^?#\n]*)?([#]?[^?#\n]*)$
work
http://
https://
www.demo.com
/slug
?foo=bar
#anchor
https://demo.com
https://demo.com/
https://demo.com/slug
https://demo.com/slug/foo
https://demo.com/?foo=bar
https://demo.com/?foo=bar#anchor
https://demo.com/?foo=bar&bar=foo#anchor
https://www.greate-demo.com/
crash
#anchor#
?toto?
None of the above worked for me. Here's what I ended up using:
/^(?:((?:https?|s?ftp):)\/\/)([^:\/\s]+)(?::(\d*))?(?:\/([^\s?#]+)?([?][^?#]*)?(#.*)?)?/
//USING REGEX
/**
* Parse URL to get information
*
* @param url the URL string to parse
* @return parsed the URL parsed or null
*/
var UrlParser = function (url) {
"use strict";
var regx = /^(((([^:\/#\?]+:)?(?:(\/\/)((?:(([^:@\/#\?]+)(?:\:([^:@\/#\?]+))?)@)?(([^:\/#\?\]\[]+|\[[^\/\]@#?]+\])(?:\:([0-9]+))?))?)?)?((\/?(?:[^\/\?#]+\/+)*)([^\?#]*)))?(\?[^#]+)?)(#.*)?/,
matches = regx.exec(url),
parser = null;
if (null !== matches) {
parser = {
href : matches[0],
withoutHash : matches[1],
url : matches[2],
origin : matches[3],
protocol : matches[4],
protocolseparator : matches[5],
credhost : matches[6],
cred : matches[7],
user : matches[8],
pass : matches[9],
host : matches[10],
hostname : matches[11],
port : matches[12],
pathname : matches[13],
segment1 : matches[14],
segment2 : matches[15],
search : matches[16],
hash : matches[17]
};
}
return parser;
};
var parsedURL=UrlParser(url);
console.log(parsedURL);
The best answer suggested here didn't work for me because my URLs also contain a port. However modifying it to the following regex worked for me:
^((http[s]?|ftp):\/)?\/?([^:\/\s]+)(:\d+)?((\/\w+)*\/)([\w\-\.]+[^#?\s]+)(.*)?(#[\w\-]+)?$
Here is one that is complete, and doesnt rely on any protocol.
function getServerURL(url) {
var m = url.match("(^(?:(?:.*?)?//)?[^/?#;]*)");
console.log(m[1]) // Remove this
return m[1];
}
getServerURL("http://dev.test.se")
getServerURL("http://dev.test.se/")
getServerURL("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js")
getServerURL("//")
getServerURL("www.dev.test.se/sdas/dsads")
getServerURL("www.dev.test.se/")
getServerURL("www.dev.test.se?abc=32")
getServerURL("www.dev.test.se#abc")
getServerURL("//dev.test.se?sads")
getServerURL("http://www.dev.test.se#321")
getServerURL("http://localhost:8080/sads")
getServerURL("https://localhost:8080?sdsa")
Prints
http://dev.test.se
http://dev.test.se
//ajax.googleapis.com
//
www.dev.test.se
www.dev.test.se
www.dev.test.se
www.dev.test.se
//dev.test.se
http://www.dev.test.se
http://localhost:8080
https://localhost:8080
Propose a much more readable solution (in Python, but applies to any regex):
def url_path_to_dict(path):
pattern = (r'^'
r'((?P<schema>.+?)://)?'
r'((?P<user>.+?)(:(?P<password>.*?))?@)?'
r'(?P<host>.*?)'
r'(:(?P<port>\d+?))?'
r'(?P<path>/.*?)?'
r'(?P<query>[?].*?)?'
r'$'
)
regex = re.compile(pattern)
m = regex.match(path)
d = m.groupdict() if m is not None else None
return d
def main():
print url_path_to_dict('http://example.example.com/example/example/example.html')
Prints:
{
'host': 'example.example.com',
'user': None,
'path': '/example/example/example.html',
'query': None,
'password': None,
'port': None,
'schema': 'http'
}
I tried a few of these that didn't cover my needs, especially the highest voted which didn't catch a url without a path (http://example.com/)
also lack of group names made it unusable in ansible (or perhaps my jinja2 skills are lacking).
so this is my version slightly modified with the source being the highest voted version here:
^((?P<protocol>http[s]?|ftp):\/)?\/?(?P<host>[^:\/\s]+)(?P<path>((\/\w+)*\/)([\w\-\.]+[^#?\s]+))*(.*)?(#[\w\-]+)?$
I'm a few years late to the party, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Uniform Resource Identifier specification has a section on parsing URIs with a regular expression. The regular expression, written by Berners-Lee, et al., is:
^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))? 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9The numbers in the second line above are only to assist readability; they indicate the reference points for each subexpression (i.e., each paired parenthesis). We refer to the value matched for subexpression as $. For example, matching the above expression to
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/#Relatedresults in the following subexpression matches:
$1 = http: $2 = http $3 = //www.ics.uci.edu $4 = www.ics.uci.edu $5 = /pub/ietf/uri/ $6 = <undefined> $7 = <undefined> $8 = #Related $9 = Related
For what it's worth, I found that I had to escape the forward slashes in JavaScript:
^(([^:\/?#]+):)?(\/\/([^\/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?
I needed a regular Expression to match all urls and made this one:
/(?:([^\:]*)\:\/\/)?(?:([^\:\@]*)(?:\:([^\@]*))?\@)?(?:([^\/\:]*)\.(?=[^\.\/\:]*\.[^\.\/\:]*))?([^\.\/\:]*)(?:\.([^\/\.\:]*))?(?:\:([0-9]*))?(\/[^\?#]*(?=.*?\/)\/)?([^\?#]*)?(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?/
It matches all urls, any protocol, even urls like
ftp://user:[email protected]:8080/dir1/dir2/file.php?param1=value1#hashtag
The result (in JavaScript) looks like this:
["ftp", "user", "pass", "www.cs", "server", "com", "8080", "/dir1/dir2/", "file.php", "param1=value1", "hashtag"]
An url like
mailto://[email protected]
looks like this:
["mailto", "admin", undefined, "www.cs", "server", "com", undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined]
I realize I'm late to the party, but there is a simple way to let the browser parse a url for you without a regex:
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = 'http://www.example.com:123/foo/bar.html?fox=trot#foo';
['href','protocol','host','hostname','port','pathname','search','hash'].forEach(function(k) {
console.log(k+':', a[k]);
});
/*//Output:
href: http://www.example.com:123/foo/bar.html?fox=trot#foo
protocol: http:
host: www.example.com:123
hostname: www.example.com
port: 123
pathname: /foo/bar.html
search: ?fox=trot
hash: #foo
*/
I know you're claiming language-agnostic on this, but can you tell us what you're using just so we know what regex capabilities you have?
If you have the capabilities for non-capturing matches, you can modify hometoast's expression so that subexpressions that you aren't interested in capturing are set up like this:
(?:SOMESTUFF)
You'd still have to copy and paste (and slightly modify) the Regex into multiple places, but this makes sense--you're not just checking to see if the subexpression exists, but rather if it exists as part of a URL. Using the non-capturing modifier for subexpressions can give you what you need and nothing more, which, if I'm reading you correctly, is what you want.
Just as a small, small note, hometoast's expression doesn't need to put brackets around the 's' for 'https', since he only has one character in there. Quantifiers quantify the one character (or character class or subexpression) directly preceding them. So:
https?
would match 'http' or 'https' just fine.
The regex to do full parsing is quite horrendous. I've included named backreferences for legibility, and broken each part into separate lines, but it still looks like this:
^(?:(?P<protocol>\w+(?=:\/\/))(?::\/\/))?
(?:(?P<host>(?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^\/?#:]+)(?::(?P<port>[0-9]+))?)\/)?
(?:(?P<path>(?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^?#])+)\/)?
(?P<file>(?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^?#])+)
(?:\?(?P<querystring>(?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^#])+))?
(?:#(?P<fragment>.*))?$
The thing that requires it to be so verbose is that except for the protocol or the port, any of the parts can contain HTML entities, which makes delineation of the fragment quite tricky. So in the last few cases - the host, path, file, querystring, and fragment, we allow either any html entity or any character that isn't a ? or #. The regex for an html entity looks like this:
$htmlentity = "&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);"
When that is extracted (I used a mustache syntax to represent it), it becomes a bit more legible:
^(?:(?P<protocol>(?:ht|f)tps?|\w+(?=:\/\/))(?::\/\/))?
(?:(?P<host>(?:{{htmlentity}}|[^\/?#:])+(?::(?P<port>[0-9]+))?)\/)?
(?:(?P<path>(?:{{htmlentity}}|[^?#])+)\/)?
(?P<file>(?:{{htmlentity}}|[^?#])+)
(?:\?(?P<querystring>(?:{{htmlentity}};|[^#])+))?
(?:#(?P<fragment>.*))?$
In JavaScript, of course, you can't use named backreferences, so the regex becomes
^(?:(\w+(?=:\/\/))(?::\/\/))?(?:((?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^\/?#:]+)(?::([0-9]+))?)\/)?(?:((?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^?#])+)\/)?((?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^?#])+)(?:\?((?:(?:&(?:amp|apos|gt|lt|nbsp|quot|bull|hellip|[lr][ds]quo|[mn]dash|permil|\#[1-9][0-9]{1,3}|[A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z]+);)|[^#])+))?(?:#(.*))?$
and in each match, the protocol is \1, the host is \2, the port is \3, the path \4, the file \5, the querystring \6, and the fragment \7.
I like the regex that was published in "Javascript: The Good Parts". Its not too short and not too complex. This page on github also has the JavaScript code that uses it. But it an be adapted for any language. https://gist.github.com/voodooGQ/4057330
Java offers a URL class that will do this. Query URL Objects.
On a side note, PHP offers parse_url().
Using http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm hometoast's regex works great.
But here is the deal, I want to use different regex patterns in different situations in my program.
For example, I have this URL, and I have an enumeration that lists all supported URLs in my program. Each object in the enumeration has a method getRegexPattern that returns the regex pattern which will then be used to compare with a URL. If the particular regex pattern returns true, then I know that this URL is supported by my program. So, each enumeration has it's own regex depending on where it should look inside the URL.
Hometoast's suggestion is great, but in my case, I think it wouldn't help (unless I copy paste the same regex in all enumerations).
That is why I wanted the answer to give the regex for each situation separately. Although +1 for hometoast. ;)
String s = "https://www.thomas-bayer.com/axis2/services/BLZService?wsdl";
String regex = "(^http.?://)(.*?)([/\\?]{1,})(.*)";
System.out.println("1: " + s.replaceAll(regex, "$1"));
System.out.println("2: " + s.replaceAll(regex, "$2"));
System.out.println("3: " + s.replaceAll(regex, "$3"));
System.out.println("4: " + s.replaceAll(regex, "$4"));
Will provide the following output:
1: https://
2: www.thomas-bayer.com
3: /
4: axis2/services/BLZService?wsdl
If you change the URL to
String s = "https://www.thomas-bayer.com?wsdl=qwerwer&ttt=888";
the output will be the following :
1: https://
2: www.thomas-bayer.com
3: ?
4: wsdl=qwerwer&ttt=888
enjoy..
Yosi Lev
This improved version should work as reliably as a parser.
// Applies to URI, not just URL or URN:
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Relationship_to_URL_and_URN
//
// http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html#regexp
//
// (?:([^:/?#]+):)?(?://([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?
//
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syntax
//
// $@ matches the entire uri
// $1 matches scheme (ftp, http, mailto, mshelp, ymsgr, etc)
// $2 matches authority (host, user:pwd@host, etc)
// $3 matches path
// $4 matches query (http GET REST api, etc)
// $5 matches fragment (html anchor, etc)
//
// Match specific schemes, non-optional authority, disallow white-space so can delimit in text, and allow 'www.' w/o scheme
// Note the schemes must match ^[^\s|:/?#]+(?:\|[^\s|:/?#]+)*$
//
// (?:()(www\.[^\s/?#]+\.[^\s/?#]+)|(schemes)://([^\s/?#]*))([^\s?#]*)(?:\?([^\s#]*))?(#(\S*))?
//
// Validate the authority with an orthogonal RegExp, so the RegExp above won’t fail to match any valid urls.
function uriRegExp( flags, schemes/* = null*/, noSubMatches/* = false*/ )
{
if( !schemes )
schemes = '[^\\s:\/?#]+'
else if( !RegExp( /^[^\s|:\/?#]+(?:\|[^\s|:\/?#]+)*$/ ).test( schemes ) )
throw TypeError( 'expected URI schemes' )
return noSubMatches ? new RegExp( '(?:www\\.[^\\s/?#]+\\.[^\\s/?#]+|' + schemes + '://[^\\s/?#]*)[^\\s?#]*(?:\\?[^\\s#]*)?(?:#\\S*)?', flags ) :
new RegExp( '(?:()(www\\.[^\\s/?#]+\\.[^\\s/?#]+)|(' + schemes + ')://([^\\s/?#]*))([^\\s?#]*)(?:\\?([^\\s#]*))?(?:#(\\S*))?', flags )
}
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Official_IANA-registered_schemes
function uriSchemesRegExp()
{
return 'about|callto|ftp|gtalk|http|https|irc|ircs|javascript|mailto|mshelp|sftp|ssh|steam|tel|view-source|ymsgr'
}
I was trying to solve this in javascript, which should be handled by:
var url = new URL('http://a:[email protected]:890/path/wah@t/foo.js?foo=bar&bingobang=&[email protected]#foobar/bing/bo@ng?bang');
since (in Chrome, at least) it parses to:
{
"hash": "#foobar/bing/bo@ng?bang",
"search": "?foo=bar&bingobang=&[email protected]",
"pathname": "/path/wah@t/foo.js",
"port": "890",
"hostname": "example.com",
"host": "example.com:890",
"password": "b",
"username": "a",
"protocol": "http:",
"origin": "http://example.com:890",
"href": "http://a:[email protected]:890/path/wah@t/foo.js?foo=bar&bingobang=&[email protected]#foobar/bing/bo@ng?bang"
}
However, this isn't cross browser (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL), so I cobbled this together to pull the same parts out as above:
^(?:(?:(([^:\/#\?]+:)?(?:(?:\/\/)(?:(?:(?:([^:@\/#\?]+)(?:\:([^:@\/#\?]*))?)@)?(([^:\/#\?\]\[]+|\[[^\/\]@#?]+\])(?:\:([0-9]+))?))?)?)?((?:\/?(?:[^\/\?#]+\/+)*)(?:[^\?#]*)))?(\?[^#]+)?)(#.*)?
Credit for this regex goes to https://gist.github.com/rpflorence who posted this jsperf http://jsperf.com/url-parsing (originally found here: https://gist.github.com/jlong/2428561#comment-310066) who came up with the regex this was originally based on.
The parts are in this order:
var keys = [
"href", // http://user:[email protected]:81/directory/file.ext?query=1#anchor
"origin", // http://user:[email protected]:81
"protocol", // http:
"username", // user
"password", // pass
"host", // host.com:81
"hostname", // host.com
"port", // 81
"pathname", // /directory/file.ext
"search", // ?query=1
"hash" // #anchor
];
There is also a small library which wraps it and provides query params:
https://github.com/sadams/lite-url (also available on bower)
If you have an improvement, please create a pull request with more tests and I will accept and merge with thanks.
subdomain and domain are difficult because the subdomain can have several parts, as can the top level domain, http://sub1.sub2.domain.co.uk/
the path without the file : http://[^/]+/((?:[^/]+/)*(?:[^/]+$)?)
the file : http://[^/]+/(?:[^/]+/)*((?:[^/.]+\.)+[^/.]+)$
the path with the file : http://[^/]+/(.*)
the URL without the path : (http://[^/]+/)
(Markdown isn't very friendly to regexes)
Source: Stackoverflow.com