Regex to match URL, ends up matching URL plus closing brackets when URL is between brackets

Question

I am using the following regex to match URLs within text

new RegExp(`(https?://\\S+\\.\\S+)\\s`, 'ig');

The problem is when URL appear within brackets like this

(e.g. https://hello.com/fridaysforfuture-eu-socialmedia)

It picks off the closing bracket as part of the URL

My expected behavior is to include Closing bracket in the match if URL is like

https://hello.com/name-(1)

but exclude closing bracket if URL is within brackets like this

(e.g. https://hello.com/fridaysforfuture-eu-socialmedia)

[This](https://regex101.com/r/Id7O7h/1) worked for me: `https?:\/\/\S+\.[^()]+(?:\([^)]*\))*` — JvdV, Mar 01 '20 at 15:34

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '20 at 15:13

-1

Try to use :

RegExp("(^|[\s.:;?\-\]<\(])(https?://[-\w;/?:@&=+$\|\_.!~*\|'()\[\]%#,☺]+[\w/#](\(\))?)(?=$|[\s',\|\(\).:;?\-\[\]>\)])","i")

answered Mar 01 '20 at 15:13

Illya

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '20 at 15:15

-1

As far as I'm aware parenthesis are not valid characters to appear in an URL (at least not unencoded)

There are a bunch of RegEx-Patterns for different use-cases in this question:

answered Mar 01 '20 at 15:15

Roland Kreuzer

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