How to parse a url from a String in android?

Question

I want to parse the url from a String in android. The example String is

"This is a new message. The content of the message is in 'http://www.example.com/asd/abc' "

I want to parse the url http://www.example.com/asd/abc from the String without using the subString method.

Answer 1

Use this:

public static String[] extractLinks(String text) {
    List<String> links = new ArrayList<String>();
    Matcher m = Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(text);
    while (m.find()) {
        String url = m.group();
        Log.d(TAG, "URL extracted: " + url);
        links.add(url);
    }

    return links.toArray(new String[links.size()]);
}

Answer 2

Updated:

You can use regular expression with Patterns.WEB_URL regular expression to find all urls in your text.

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Original:

You can use Uri.parse(String uriString) function.

Answer 3

If you are parsing the links for the purpose of styling them, Linkify is an elegant solution:

descriptionTextView.setText("This text contains a http://www.url.com")
Linkify.addLinks(descriptionTextView, Linkify.WEB_URLS);

You can also change the default colour of the link:

descriptionTextView.setLinkTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(),
                R.color.colorSecondary));

The result looks like this:

Answer 4

Yes its possible. Try with the following code sample

ArrayList retrieveLinks(String text) {
        ArrayList links = new ArrayList();

        String regex = "\\(?\\b(http://|www[.])[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_()|!:,.;]*[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_()|]";
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);
        Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
        while(m.find()) {
        String urlStr = m.group();
        char[] stringArray1 = urlStr.toCharArray();

        if (urlStr.startsWith("(") && urlStr.endsWith(")"))
        {

            char[] stringArray = urlStr.toCharArray(); 

            char[] newArray = new char[stringArray.length-2];
            System.arraycopy(stringArray, 1, newArray, 0, stringArray.length-2);
            urlStr = new String(newArray);
            System.out.println("Finally Url ="+newArray.toString());

        }
        System.out.println("...Url..."+urlStr);
        links.add(urlStr);
        }
        return links;
        }

Thanks Deepak