wp_extract_urls() WP 1.0

Use RegEx to extract URLs from arbitrary content.

No Hooks.

Return

Array. URLs found in passed string.

Usage

wp_extract_urls( $content );

$content(string) (required)

Content to extract URLs from.

Code of wp_extract_urls: wp-includes/functions.php ^{VER 4.9.8}

<?php
function wp_extract_urls( $content ) {
	preg_match_all(
		"#([\"']?)("
			. "(?:([\w-]+:)?//?)"
			. "[^\s()<>]+"
			. "[.]"
			. "(?:"
				. "\([\w\d]+\)|"
				. "(?:"
					. "[^`!()\[\]{};:'\".,<>«»“”‘’\s]|"
					. "(?:[:]\d+)?/?"
				. ")+"
			. ")"
		. ")\\1#",
		$content,
		$post_links
	);

	$post_links = array_unique( array_map( 'html_entity_decode', $post_links[2] ) );

	return array_values( $post_links );
}

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