Javascript - Find twitter short url from tweet

Question

I am looking for a jquery code to find the url part from a tweet and alert it. I have this tweet wrapped inside a div with a class .tweet

some tweet text goes here https://t.co/CTyPa0sYmp

I tried Regx expression but I guess because of the uppercase in url, it can only find the beginning of it.

var searchText = jQuery('.tweet').text(),
urls = searchText.match(/\b(https)?(:\/\/)?(\S*)\.(\w{2,4})\b/i);
alert(urls);

but the code only alerts "https://t.co"

What exactly am I doing wrong here?

http://jsfiddle.net/gd7kR/314/ The regex is wrong. I did a match for all. This is not a perfect answer. But, thats what you are missing. — theshadowmonkey, Mar 08 '16 at 06:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Copied the following regex from here, should work in your case. And I'm marking this question as duplicate.

/\b((http|https)?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[^\s\.]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[^\s]+\.[^\s]{2,})\b/ig

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Mar 08 '16 at 06:38

Ammar Hasan

Thank a lot Ammar. Sorry that it's a duplicate coz sometimes it's very urgent and you don't get enough time to do proper research. – Rahul Mar 08 '16 at 06:50
No issues brother :) all the best – Ammar Hasan Mar 08 '16 at 07:19

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