Golang - extract links using regex

Question

Golang - extract links using regex

I need to get all links from text which are in specific domain example.de using Regex in Go

Below are all possible links that should be extracted:

https://example.de 
https://example.de/
https://example.de/home
https://example.de/home/
https://example.de/home some text that should not be extracted
https://abc.example.de
https://abc.example.de/
https://abc.example.de/home
https://abc.example.de/home
https://abc.example.de/home some text that should not be extracted

What I already tried

I used this website to check if my regex are correct: https://regex101.com/r/ohxUcG/2 and here are combinations that failed:

• https?://*.+example.de*.+ failed on expression https://abc.example.de/a1b2c3 dsadsa getting whole text to the \n instead of https://abc.example.de/a1b2c3 without dsadsa
• https?://*.+example.de*.+\s(\w+)$ this gets links that are terminated only with space but sometimes links can be terminated with \n or \t etc.

Resources which may be useful

• golang regexp.MatchString handle url match
• regex to get the last item after space
• Is there a way to match everything except a constant string using Go.Regexp?
• Golang regexp to match string until a given sequence of characters

Answer 1

You can use

(?:https?://)?(?:[^/.]+\.)*\bexample\.de\b(?:/[^/\s]+)*/?

See the regex demo. Details:

• (?:https?://)? - an optional http:// or https:// string
• (?:[^/.]+\.)* - zero or more sequences of one or more chars other than a / and . chars and then a . char
• \bexample\.de\b - a whole word example.de
• (?:/[^/\s]+)* - zero or more repetitions of / and then one or more chars other than whitespace and /
• /? - an optional / char.