python regex find url in string code example

Example 1: python regex for a url

import re

url = '<p>Hello World</p><a href="http://example.com">More Examples</a><a href="http://example2.com">Even More Examples</a>'

urls = re.findall('https?://(?:[-\w.]|(?:%[\da-fA-F]{2}))+', url)

>>> print urls
['http://example.com', 'http://example2.com']

Example 2: python regex url

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.