urlfinder

Pull the links out of a piece of text. One function, no dependencies.

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/accessibleapps/urlfinder.git

Needs Python 3.8 or newer.

Use it

from urlfinder import find_urls

find_urls("New episode is up (https://example.com/ep42), and the notes are at www.example.org/notes.")
# ['https://example.com/ep42', 'www.example.org/notes']

find_urls(text) returns a list of strings, in the order they appear. It finds:

• anything that starts with a scheme like http://, https:// or ftp://
• anything that starts with www.

It trims quotes, brackets, braces, parentheses, periods, commas, colons, semicolons and backslashes from both ends of each match, so a link at the end of a sentence or inside parentheses comes out clean. Other characters, such as ! and ?, are kept.

Accessible Apps uses it to find the links in posts and messages so people can open them from the keyboard.