Regex for capturing all the urls in a paragraph except for a specific domain

See here for the original answer.

This should be sufficient for your use case:

/(?<!\S)(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:(?:(?!example)\w+[.-])+[a-z]{2,11})(?!\S)/gi

See here for a demonstration of the regex at work. Below is a rough explanation of what the regex is doing:

• The leading and trailing (?<!\S) essentially splits the string into segments on space characters, including whitespace and newlines
• The ?: syntax makes each set of parenthesis it is in a non-capture group, saving memory on the machine where it is ran and speeding up your execution time
• (?:https?:\/\/)? optionally matches both http and https for URLs without matching the invalid characters : and / anywhere else in the URL
• (?:(?!example)\w+[.-])+ looks for one or more words that do not match example, followed by either a hyphen or a period
• [a-z]{2,11} matches the final domain extension, i.e. com, org, or enterprises

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