REGEX for pulling URLs out of href

[jonchiehlau 0]

I have a list of scraped hrefs and I want to extract the urls from them.

 

The list looks like

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/isu.iv?ref=br_rs">ISU InterVarsity</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/WSU-InterVarsity/149571488395581?ref=br_rs">WSU InterVarsity</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lindenwood-InterVarsity/133851456707688?ref=br_rs">Lindenwood InterVarsity</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Intervarsity-Memes/171459952966826?ref=br_rs">Intervarsity Memes</a>

 

I want to extract links like: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lindenwood-InterVarsity/133851456707688?ref=br_rs

 

I have tried using REGEX for the past day and can't get it.

 

 

[a2mateit 395]

Why don't you scrape only the href when scraping?

 

Would cut out the need to use regex all together.

[jonchiehlau 0]

In order to get the correct links, I needed to go up one level and select by <div> and scrape the innerhtml. Normally I would just scrape the href.

[zdot 14]

try this:

 

(?<=<a href=\").*(?=\">)

[jonchiehlau 0]

Worked like a charm zdot! Thanks!