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pythonurlmalformedurlexception

How to validate a url in Python? (Malformed or not)

I have url from the user and I have to reply with the fetched HTML.

How can I check for the URL to be malformed or not?

For example :

url = 'google' # Malformed
url = 'google.com' # Malformed
url = 'http://google.com' # Valid
url = 'http://google' # Malformed
Solution

  • django url validation regex (source):

    import re
regex = re.compile(
        r'^(?:http|ftp)s?://' # http:// or https://
        r'(?:(?:[A-Z0-9](?:[A-Z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2,6}\.?|[A-Z0-9-]{2,}\.?)|' #domain...
        r'localhost|' #localhost...
        r'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})' # ...or ip
        r'(?::\d+)?' # optional port
        r'(?:/?|[/?]\S+)$', re.IGNORECASE)

print(re.match(regex, "http://www.example.com") is not None) # True
print(re.match(regex, "example.com") is not None)            # False