Answer to Question #255441 in Python for kyle

Question

Create a program to develop a Regex that will find all website URLS that begin with http://www or https://www search for URL matches and then copy matches back to the clipboard. Display the matches on the screen and display the message “No web addresses found” if there are none.

Answer 1

import re

def checkUrlValidity(str):

    
    regex = ("((http|https)://)(www.)?" +
            "[a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\\+~#?&//=]" +
            "{2,256}\\.[a-z]" +
            "{2,6}\\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%" +
            "._\\+~#?&//=]*)")
    
    
    x = re.compile(regex)

    if (str == None):
        return False

    
    if(re.search(x, str)):
        return True
    else:
        return False


url = "https://www.test.com"

if(checkUrlValidity(url) == True):
    print("matches on the screen")
else:
    print("No web addresses found")