How do you validate a URL with a regular expression in Python?

There's no validate method as almost anything is a valid URL. There are some punctuation rules for splitting it up. Without any punctuation, you still have a valid URL.

Depending on the situation, we use following methods.

• If you trust the data, and just want to verify if the protocol is HTTP, then urlparse is perfect.

• If you want to make the URL is actually a true URL, use the cumbersome and maniacal regex

• If you want to make sure it's a real web address, use the following code

Example

import urllib
try:
    urllib.urlopen(url)
except IOError:
    print "Not a real URL"

Rajendra Dharmkar

Published on 11-Jan-2018 18:54:49

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