Java code to get URL from a string
Published on 08-15-2010
This little code snippet / function will effectively extract URL strings from a string in Java. I found the basic regex for doing it here, and used it in a java function.
//Pull all links from the body for easy retrieval
private ArrayList pullLinks(String text) {
ArrayList links = new ArrayList();
String regex = "\\(?\\b(http://|www[.])[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_()|]";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
while(m.find()) {
String urlStr = m.group();
if (urlStr.startsWith("(") && urlStr.endsWith(")"))
{
urlStr = urlStr.substring(1, urlStr.length() - 1);
}
links.add(urlStr);
}
return links;
}
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