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best youtube id match ( iframe embed replace ready )

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MATCH ANY YOUTUBE ID author : mi-ca v1.0 – 2017.03.08 This Regex match any youtube url and grab the ID. Embed ready √ --...
Submitted by mi-ca.ch - 6 years ago
29

Cron schedule

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate cron lines (even the ones commented out)
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
12

CSS Color Matcher

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Pattern matching and extracting color code formats using RegEx. https://github.com/Kyza/color-regex/
Submitted by Kyza - a year ago
32

Strict Password Validator

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This regex matches only when all the following are true: password must contain 1 number (0-9) password must contain 1 uppercase letters password must contain 1 lowercase letters password must contain 1 non-alpha numeric number...
Submitted by qho - 7 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
27

Parsing browser User Agents

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
From a (fairly large) list of User Agent strings, extract the OS, Browser, and Device Type.
Submitted by OnlineCop - 10 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
18

Get path from any text

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PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
Get path (windows style) from any type of text (error message, e-mail corps ...), quoted or not. THIS IS THE SINGLE LINE VERSION !_ If you want understand how it work or edit it, go https://regex101.com/r/7o2fyy Relative path are not supported...
Submitted by nitrateag - 2 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
10

Conventional Commits validation

Python
This regex prevents the writing of non-standard conventional commits. I'm available on my github
Submitted by Krisque - 3 years ago (Last modified 3 years ago)
14

RFC3339 DateTime

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validates a RFC3339 DateTime format. Does not validates the Data
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
9

Fiddler raw body to PHP array

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by garsax - 9 years ago
8

IP Address (with 0s)

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Matches all valid IP addresses from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
Submitted by Ryan Plummer - 9 years ago
19

Email (RFC2822)

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ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Email address compliant with RFC2822
Submitted by Jago - 9 years ago
11

youtube url match

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
extract video id, index, play list id from youtube url
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
15

Email regex validation

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
RegEx email /^((?!\.)[\w-_.]*)(@\w+)(\.\w+(\.\w+)?)$/gim; Just playing with Reg Ex. This to validate emails in following ways ...
Submitted by https://www.linkedin.com/in/peralta-steve-atileon/ - 6 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
9

extract subdomain(if available) or domain from URL

Python
This regex should extract the subdomain, if any, or the domain, if no subdomain is used, from an arbitrary URL
Submitted by trevi@twanda.com - 9 years ago
11

UUID

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 10 years ago
11

Find Reddit Threads

Python
Simply searches for the thread-id in any kind of valid reddit-URL.
Submitted by Mio - 10 years ago
11

IPv4 Validator

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 4 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
25

grab valid css rules and properties

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by Pavel Dominguez - 9 years ago
10

entity

Python
no description available
Submitted by anonymous - 9 years ago
15

us postal/zip

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
no description available
Submitted by jay johnson - 11 years ago
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Community Library Entry

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Regular Expression
ECMAScript (JavaScript)

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^((http:|https:){0,1}\/\/.*\.wikipedia\.org){0,1}(\/wiki\/|\/w\/){1}(index\.php\?title=){0,1}(?!User:|Wikipedia:|WP:|Project:|File:|Image:|MediaWiki:|MW:|Template:|Help:|Category:|Portal:|Draft:|TimedText:|Module:|Gadget:|Gadget definition:|Topic:|Education Program:|Book:|WT:|Special:|Wikipedia Talk:|Talk:|H:|CAT:|User talk:|Image Talk:|MOS:|P:|T:|Main_Page)(?<ARTICLENAME>(?!index\.php\?title=)[^&|?|\n]*)[&|?]?.*$
/
miug
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Description

This works against a list of hyperlinks from the 'USS Marmora (1862)' article

You can include File: pages by removing the File:| from the regex.

I could improve how the remaining query for urls containing index.php, for now I recommend splitting in your chosen programming language.

According to guidelines at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:URL

Submitted by Martin Shaw - a year ago (Last modified a year ago)