wp_extract_urls( string $content )

Use RegEx to extract URLs from arbitrary content.

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Parameters Parameters

$content

(string) (Required) Content to extract URLs from.

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Return Return

(string[]) Array of URLs found in passed string.

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Source Source

File: wp-includes/functions.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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Used By Used By

Used By
Used By Description
wp-includes/functions.php: do_enclose()

Check content for video and audio links to add as enclosures.
wp-includes/comment.php: pingback()

Pings back the links found in a post.

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Changelog Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
3.7.0 Introduced.

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$urls = wp_extract_urls( $string );

    Will return an array like this:

    array( 0 => 'http://example.com' )

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