$re = '/":method"[:"a-z,/\d-]{20,1000}/copy/mi';
$str = '":method":"POST",":path":"/api/browser/projects/8bd4d1d3-0b69-515e-8e15-e9c49992f7d5/buckets/b-ao-mock-testing/copy';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
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