Question

Considering a string as follows:

string = "<p>Hello World</p><a href="http://example.com">More Examples</a><a href="http://2.example">Even More Examples</a>"

How could I, with Python, extract the URLs, inside the anchor tag’s href? Something like:

>>> url = getURLs(string)
>>> url
['http://example.com', 'http://2.example']

Answer 1

import re

url = '<p>Hello World</p><a href="http://example.com">More Examples</a><a href="http://2.example">Even More Examples</a>'

urls = re.findall('https?://(?:[-\w.]|(?:%[\da-fA-F]{2}))+', url)

>>> print urls
['http://example.com', 'http://2.example']