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Extracting email addresses using regular expressions in Python
Email addresses are pretty complex and do not have a standard being followed all over the world which makes it difficult to identify an email in a regex. The RFC 5322 specifies the format of an email address. We'll use this format to extract email addresses from the text.
For example, for a given input string −
Hi my name is John and email address is john.doe@somecompany.co.uk and my friend's email is jane_doe124@gmail.com
We should get the output −
john.doe@somecompany.co.uk jane_doe124@gmail.com
We can use the following regex for exatraction −
[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+
We can extract the email addresses using the find all method from re module. For example,
Example
import re
my_str = "Hi my name is John and email address is john.doe@somecompany.co.uk and my friend's email is jane_doe124@gmail.com"
emails = re.findall("([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+)", my_str)
for mail in an email:
print(mail)Output
This will give the output −
john.doe@somecompany.co.uk jane_doe124@gmail.com
Updated on: 20-Jun-2020
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