I'm trying to form a regular expression (javascript/node.js) which will extract the sub-domain & domain part from any given URL. This is what I ended up with:
[^(?:http:\/\/|www\.|https:\/\/)]([^\/]+)
Right now, I'm just considering http, https for protocol & exclude "www." portion from the subdomain+domain portion of an URL. I checked the expression & it almost works. But, here is the issue:
Success
'http://mplay.google.co.in/sadfask/asdkfals?dk=10'.match(/[^(?:http:\/\/|www\.|https:\/\/)]([^\/]+)/i)
'http://lplay.google.co.in/sadfask/asdkfals?dk=10'.match(/[^(?:http:\/\/|www\.|https:\/\/)]([^\/]+)/i)
Failure
'http://play.google.co.in/sadfask/asdkfals?dk=10'.match(/[^(?:http:\/\/|www\.|https:\/\/)]([^\/]+)/i)
'http://tplay.google.co.in/sadfask/asdkfals?dk=10'.match(/[^(?:http:\/\/|www\.|https:\/\/)]([^\/]+)/i)
I just use the first element from the result array. I'm not able to understand why "play." & "tplay." doesn't work. Could anyone please help me in this regard?
Does "/p" and "/t" have any meaning for the regular expression evaluator?
Is there any other way of extracting sub-domain & domain from any given URL using a regular expression?
Edit -
Example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skgames.trafficracer => play.google.com
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox => mail.google.com
Your regex doesn't seem correct. Try this regex:
/^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:[^@\n]+@)?(?:www\.)?([^:\/\n?]+)/img