Extracting a URL in Python

Question

In regards to: Find Hyperlinks in Text using Python (twitter related)

How can I extract just the url so I can put it into a list/array?

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Edit

Let me clarify, I don't want to parse the URL into pieces. I want to extract the URL from the text of the string to put it into an array. Thanks!

Answer 1

In response to the OP's edit I hijacked Find Hyperlinks in Text using Python (twitter related) and came up with this:

import re

myString = "This is my tweet check it out http://example.com/blah"

print(re.search("(?P<url>https?://[^s]+)", myString).group("url"))