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The url-regex npm package is a utility for matching URLs in strings using regular expressions. It can be used to find and extract URLs from text, validate URLs, and more.
Match URLs in a string
This feature allows you to find and extract all URLs present in a given string.
const urlRegex = require('url-regex');
const text = 'Check out this link: https://example.com and this one: http://example.org';
const urls = text.match(urlRegex());
console.log(urls); // ['https://example.com', 'http://example.org']
Validate a URL
This feature allows you to validate if a given string is a valid URL.
const urlRegex = require('url-regex');
const isValidUrl = urlRegex({ exact: true }).test('https://example.com');
console.log(isValidUrl); // true
Match URLs with specific protocols
This feature allows you to match URLs with specific protocols, such as 'https' or 'ftp'.
const urlRegex = require('url-regex');
const text = 'Visit our site at https://example.com or our FTP server at ftp://example.org';
const urls = text.match(urlRegex({ protocols: ['https'] }));
console.log(urls); // ['https://example.com']
linkify-it is a fast and lightweight library for finding and converting URLs in plain text into clickable links. It offers more customization options compared to url-regex, such as handling different types of links (e.g., email addresses) and providing hooks for custom link processing.
url-pattern is a utility for matching URLs against patterns. It is more focused on URL routing and matching specific URL structures, making it useful for applications like client-side routing in single-page applications. It offers more flexibility in defining and matching complex URL patterns compared to url-regex.
valid-url is a simple utility for validating URLs. It provides functions to check if a URL is valid, if it is a web URL, or if it is an HTTP/HTTPS URL. It is more focused on validation rather than extraction, making it a good choice for scenarios where URL validation is the primary requirement.
Regular expression for matching URLs
Based on this gist by Diego Perini.
$ npm install --save url-regex
var urlRegex = require('url-regex');
urlRegex().test('https://github.com');
//=> true
urlRegex().exec('This is a cool site https://github.com')[0].trim();
//=> https://github.com
'Multiple https://github.com http://google.com URLs'.match(urlRegex());
//=> ['https://github.com', 'http://google.com']
MIT © Diego Perini
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Regular expression for matching URLs
The npm package url-regex receives a total of 266,373 weekly downloads. As such, url-regex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that url-regex demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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