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About this regex

This regex extracts URLs from HTML by matching the value inside href attributes (href="..."). It captures everything between the quotes, making it ideal for scraping or parsing links from HTML documents. The global flag ensures all occurrences are found throughout the text.

url html extraction href parsing

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