regex101: Twitch URL Regex

Group 1(^http(s)?://)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

^start of line

httpthe literal text http (case sensitive)

Group 2(s)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

sthe literal s (115₁₀ / 163₈ / 73₁₆) (case sensitive)

://the literal text ://

Group 3((www|en-es|en-gb|secure|beta|ro|www-origin|en-ca|fr-ca|lt|zh-tw|he|id|ca|mk|lv|ma|tl|hi|ar|bg|vi|th)\.)?

?repeats the group contents below at most once:

Group 4(www|en-es|en-gb|secure|beta|ro|www-origin|en-ca|fr-ca|lt|zh-tw|he|id|ca|mk|lv|ma|tl|hi|ar|bg|vi|th)

1st Alternativewww

wwwthe literal text www (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeen-es

en-esthe literal text en-es (case sensitive)

3rd Alternativeen-gb

en-gbthe literal text en-gb (case sensitive)

4th Alternativesecure

securethe literal text secure (case sensitive)

5th Alternativebeta

betathe literal text beta (case sensitive)

6th Alternativero

rothe literal text ro (case sensitive)

7th Alternativewww-origin

www-originthe literal text www-origin (case sensitive)

8th Alternativeen-ca

en-cathe literal text en-ca (case sensitive)

9th Alternativefr-ca

fr-cathe literal text fr-ca (case sensitive)

10th Alternativelt

ltthe literal text lt (case sensitive)

11th Alternativezh-tw

zh-twthe literal text zh-tw (case sensitive)

12th Alternativehe

hethe literal text he (case sensitive)

13th Alternativeid

idthe literal text id (case sensitive)

14th Alternativeca

cathe literal text ca (case sensitive)

15th Alternativemk

mkthe literal text mk (case sensitive)

16th Alternativelv

lvthe literal text lv (case sensitive)

17th Alternativema

mathe literal text ma (case sensitive)

18th Alternativetl

tlthe literal text tl (case sensitive)

19th Alternativehi

hithe literal text hi (case sensitive)

20th Alternativear

arthe literal text ar (case sensitive)

21st Alternativebg

bgthe literal text bg (case sensitive)

22nd Alternativevi

23rd Alternativeth

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

twitchthe literal text twitch (case sensitive)

.any Unicode character (except for line terminators)

tv/the literal text tv/ (case sensitive)

Group channel(?P<channel>\w+)

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

Search reference

Regular Expression

(^http(s)?://)?((www|en-es|en-gb|secure|beta|ro|www-origin|en-ca|fr-ca|lt|zh-tw|he|id|ca|mk|lv|ma|tl|hi|ar|bg|vi|th)\.)?twitch.tv/(?!directory|p|user/legal|admin|login|signup|jobs)(?P<channel>\w+)

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