regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

<imgthe literal text <img (case insensitive)

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

src="the literal text src=" (case insensitive)

Group imageURL(?<imageURL>[^"]*)

Negated Character Class[^"]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

> the literal text >

Comment: IMG tag

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

Comment: Anything in-between IMG and A

<athe literal text <a (case insensitive)

\sany whitespace character

Negated Character Class[^>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

href="the literal text href=" (case insensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

titlethe literal text title (case insensitive)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

tt the literal text tt (case insensitive)

Group imdbid(?<imdbid>\d{7})

\d{7}a digit, repeated exactly 7 times

Comment: Got the imdbid

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group title(?<title>.*?)

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

Comment: Got title

<the literal text <

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

a> the literal text a> (case insensitive)

Comment: End of A tag

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Group year(?<year>\d{4})

\d{4}a digit, repeated exactly 4 times

Comment: Year

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Non-Capturing Group(?:\( # Type is optional (?<type>[^<]*) # Type \))?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

\(the literal ( (40₁₀ / 50₈ / 28₁₆)

Comment: Type is optional

Group type(?<type>[^<]*)

Negated Character Class[^<]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Comment: Type

\)the literal ) (41₁₀ / 51₈ / 29₁₆)

Comment: End of optional group

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

x modifier: extended. Ignores unescaped whitespace and comments outside character classes

Search reference

Regular Expression

<img\s[^>]*src="(?<imageURL>[^"]*)"\s*\/> # IMG tag
.*?                                       # Anything in-between IMG and A
<a\s[^>]*?href="\/title\/tt
  (?<imdbid>\d{7})                        # Got the imdbid
  \/[^>]*>(?<title>.*?)                   # Got title
  <\/a>                                   # End of A tag
  \s*\(
       (?<year>\d{4})                     # Year
   \)\s*(?:\(                             # Type is optional 
      (?<type>[^<]*)                      # Type
     \))?                                 # End of optional group

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