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John Gruber's regex to find URLs in plain text, converted to Python/Unicode
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gruber_urlintext.py
#See: http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
import re, urllib
GRUBER_URLINTEXT_PAT = re.compile(ur'(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'".,<>?\xab\xbb\u201c\u201d\u2018\u2019]))')
for line in urllib.urlopen("http://daringfireball.net/misc/2010/07/url-matching-regex-test-data.text"):
print [ mgroups[0] for mgroups in GRUBER_URLINTEXT_PAT.findall(line) ]
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