regex101: Python Substitution Workspace

Explanation

Pro

^start of line

Non-Capturing Group(?:GET|POST)

1st AlternativeGET

GETthe literal text GET (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativePOST

POSTthe literal text POST (case sensitive)

\s+a Unicode whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group 1([^?\s]+)

Negated Character Class[^?\s]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

\sa Unicode whitespace character

.*any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^(?:GET|POST)\s+([^?\s]+).*$

New

GET /1.1/friendships/list.json?user_id=123 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/list.json HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/users/show.json?include_entities=1&user_id=321 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/list.json?user_id=234 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/create.json HTTP/1.1
POST /some/other/url/here

Extraction

GET /1.1/friendships/list.json?user_id=123 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/list.json HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/users/show.json?include_entities=1&user_id=321 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/list.json?user_id=234 HTTP/1.1
GET /1.1/friendships/create.json HTTP/1.1
POST /some/other/url/here