Regex to Extract URLs from Text

Find every http/https URL inside a paragraph.

Input

https?:\/\/[\w.\-/?=&%#]+

Output

Matches against:
"See https://buildutilities.com and http://example.org/docs?id=1 for more."
→ https://buildutilities.com
→ http://example.org/docs?id=1

How it works

Greedy character class captures the full URL until whitespace or punctuation. Use the global flag (g) to extract all matches.

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