URL / HTTP Regex Pattern

Match HTTP and HTTPS URLs using regex. Includes protocol, domain, path, and query string matching with ready-to-use patterns.

The Pattern

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

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How It Works

Token	Meaning
`http`	Literal "http" string
`s?`	Optional "s" for HTTPS
`://`	Literal "://" separator
`[\\w\\-._~:/?#\\[\\]@!$&'()*+,;=%]+`	One or more valid URL characters including path, query, and fragment

Test Cases

✅https://example.comMatch

✅http://test.org/path?q=1Match

✅https://sub.domain.co.uk/page#sectionMatch

❌ftp://files.example.comNo match

❌not-a-urlNo match

❌://missing-protocol.comNo match

Code Examples

javascript

const urlRegex = /https?:\/\/[\w\-._~:/?#[\]@!$&'()*+,;=%]+/g;
const text = "Visit https://example.com/path?q=1 or http://test.org";
const matches = text.match(urlRegex);
console.log(matches); // ["https://example.com/path?q=1", "http://test.org"]

python

import re
url_regex = r"https?://[\w\-._~:/?#\[\]@!$&'()*+,;=%]+"
text = "Visit https://example.com/path?q=1 or http://test.org"
matches = re.findall(url_regex, text)
print(matches)  # ['https://example.com/path?q=1', 'http://test.org']

Common Use Cases

Link detection - auto-link URLs in plain text
Web scraping - extract URLs from HTML content
Input validation - verify URL format in forms
Log analysis - find URLs in server access logs

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