Extract domain from text

Extract the domain part from URLs in article content

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Using Google Sheets to extract domains

Use Google Spreadsheet REGEXEXTRACT function

=REGEXEXTRACT(A2, "(http[s]?\://[^/]+)")

Input text:

Yahoo! News https://tw.news.yahoo.com/abc

Output:

https://tw.news.yahoo.com

Explanation:

• Domain refers to text that starts with http:// or https://, followed by multiple characters that are not the symbol /: [^/]+. =

Data Validation: Does the article content contain a domain

The original data includes domains, but the domains don't include http prefix, e.g., tw.news.yahoo.com or www.bbc.co.uk. Using Google Spreadsheet REGEXMATCH function, if it matches the regular expression rules, it returns TRUE. If not, it returns FALSE. The following syntax doesn't handle IPv4 format domains. (If the domain includes http prefix, you can directly search for: regular expression extract host)

=IF(ISERROR(REGEXMATCH(A1, "([a-zA-Z0-9\-''\\.''~\:\/\?#\[\]@\!\$&'\(\)\''\+,;\=%]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$|\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})")), FALSE, REGEXMATCH(A1, "([a-zA-Z0-9\-''\\.''~\:\/\?#\[\]@\!\$&'\(\)\''\+,;\=%]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$|\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})"))

Input 1:

www.bbc.co.uk

Output 1:

TRUE

Input 2:

# 0.0.0

Output 2:

TRUE

Input 3:

Yahoo! News

Output 3:

FALSE

Other methods not recommended:

• Checking if the domain ends with .com, .tw, .net, .org is inefficient because there are too many to enumerate.