check if string contains url javascript code example

Example 1: Check if a JavaScript string is a URL

function isValidURL(string) {
  var res = string.match(/(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g);
  return (res !== null)
};

var testCase1 = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_&_Gamble";

alert(isValidURL(testCase1));

Example 2: check if url contains string

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    if (window.location.href.indexOf("franky") > -1) {
      alert("your url contains the name franky");
    }
  });
</script>

Example 3: javascript contains substring

var str = "We got a poop cleanup on isle 4.";
if(str.indexOf("poop") !== -1){
	alert("Not again");
}
//use indexOf (it returns position of substring or -1 if not found)

Example 4: javascript determine if string is valid url

function isValidHttpUrl(string) {
  let url;
  
  try {
    url = new URL(string);
  } catch (_) {
    return false;  
  }

  return url.protocol === "http:" || url.protocol === "https:";
}

Example 5: check if string contains url

var reg = new RegExp('([a-zA-Z\d]+://)?((\w+:\w+@)?([a-zA-Z\d.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})(:\d+)?(/.*)?)', 'i')
if (reg.test(status_text)) {
    alert(reg.exec(status_text)[2]);
}