I want to parse all google map links inside a String. The format is as follows :
1st example
https://www.google.com/maps/place/white+house/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!8m2!3d38.8976763!4d-77.0365298
https://www.google.com/maps/place/white+house/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
https://www.google.com/maps/place//#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
https://maps.google.com/maps/place//#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
https://www.google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
https://google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
http://google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
https://www.google.com.tw/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z
These are all valid google map URLs (linking to White House)
Here is what I tried
String gmapLinkRegex = "(http|https)://(www\\.)?google\\.com(\\.\\w*)?/maps/(place/.*)?#(.*z)[^ ]*";
Pattern patternGmapLink = Pattern.compile(gmapLinkRegex , Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
Matcher m = patternGmapLink.matcher(s);
while (m.find()) {
logger.info("group0 = {}" , m.group(0));
String place = m.group(4);
place = StringUtils.stripEnd(place , "/"); // remove tailing '/'
place = StringUtils.stripStart(place , "place/"); // remove header 'place/'
logger.info("place = '{}'" , place);
String latLngZ = m.group(5);
logger.info("latLngZ = '{}'" , latLngZ);
}
It works in simple situation , but still buggy ...
for example
It need post-process to grab optional place information
And it cannot extract one line with two urls such as :
s = "https://www.google.com/maps/place//#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z " +
" and http://google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
It should be two urls , but the regex matches the whole line ...
The points :
The whole URL should be matched in group(0) (including the tailing data part in 1st example),
in the 1st example , if the zoom level : 17z is removed , it is still a valid gmap URL , but my regex cannot match it.
Easier to extract optional place info
Lat / Lng extraction is must , zoom level is optional.
Able to parse multiple urls in one line
Able to process maps.google.com(.xx)/maps , I tried (www|maps\.)? but seems still buggy
Any suggestion to improve this regex ? Thanks a lot !
The dot-asterisk
.*
will always allow anything to the end of the last url.
You need "tighter" regexes, which match a single URL but not several with anything in between.
The "[^ ]*" might include the next URL if it is separated by something other than " ", which includes line break, tab, shift-space...
I propose (sorry, not tested on java), to use "anything but #" and "digit, minus, comma or dot" and "optional special string followed by tailored charset, many times".
"(http|https)://(www\.)?google\.com(\.\w*)?/maps/(place/[^#]*)?#([0123456789\.,-]*z)(\/data=[\!:\.\-0123456789abcdefmsx]+)?"
I tested the one above on a perl-regex compatible engine (np++).
Please adapt yourself, if I guessed anything wrong. The explicit list of digits can probably be replaced by "\d", I tried to minimise assumptions on regex flavor.
In order to match "URL" or "URL and URL", please use a variable storing the regex, then do "(URL and )*URL", replacing "URL" with regex var. (Asuming this is possible in java.) If the question is how to then retrieve the multiple matches: That is java, I cannot help. Let me know and I delete this answer, not to provoke deserved downvotes ;-)
(Edited to catch the data part in, previously not seen, first example, first line; and the multi URLs in one line.)
I wrote this regex to validate google maps links:
"(http:|https:)?\\/\\/(www\\.)?(maps.)?google\\.[a-z.]+\\/maps/?([\\?]|place/*[^#]*)?/*#?(ll=)?(q=)?(([\\?=]?[a-zA-Z]*[+]?)*/?#{0,1})?([0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]+(,|&[a-zA-Z]+=)-?[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]+(,?[0-9]+(z|m))?)?(\\/?data=[\\!:\\.\\-0123456789abcdefmsx]+)?"
I tested with the following list of google maps links:
String location1 = "http://www.google.com/maps/place/21.01196755,105.86306012";
String location2 = "https://www.google.com.tw/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location3 = "http://www.google.com/maps/place/21.01196755,105.86306012";
String location4 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place/white+house/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b7bcdecbb1df:0x715969d86d0b76bf!8m2!3d38.8976763!4d-77.0365298";
String location5 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place/white+house/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location6 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place//#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location7 = "https://maps.google.com/maps/place//#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location8 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location9 = "https://google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location10 = "http://google.com/maps/place/#38.8976763,-77.0387185,17z";
String location11 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place/#/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3135abf74b040853:0x6ff9dfeb960ec979";
String location12 = "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,+NY,+USA&hl=no&sll=19.808054,-63.720703&sspn=54.337928,93.076172&oq=n&hnear=New+York&t=m&z=10";
String location13 = "https://www.google.com/maps";
String location14 = "https://www.google.fr/maps";
String location15 = "https://google.fr/maps";
String location16 = "http://google.fr/maps";
String location17 = "https://www.google.de/maps";
String location18 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4";
String location19 = "https://www.google.de/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4";
String location20 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4&layer=t&lci=com.panoramio.all,com.google.webcams,weather";
String location21 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.370157,0.615234&spn=45.047033,93.076172&t=m&z=4&layer=t";
String location22 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4";
String location23 = "https://www.google.de/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4";
String location24 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=45.197878,93.076172&t=h&z=4&layer=t&lci=com.panoramio.all,com.google.webcams,weather";
String location25 = "https://www.google.com/maps?ll=37.370157,0.615234&spn=45.047033,93.076172&t=m&z=4&layer=t";
String location26 = "http://www.google.com/maps/place/21.01196755,105.86306012";
String location27 = "http://google.com/maps/bylatlng?lat=21.01196022&lng=105.86298748";
String location28 = "https://www.google.com/maps/place/C%C3%B4ng+vi%C3%AAn+Th%E1%BB%91ng+Nh%E1%BA%A5t,+354A+%C4%90%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng+L%C3%AA+Du%E1%BA%A9n,+L%C3%AA+%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i+H%C3%A0nh,+%C4%90%E1%BB%91ng+%C4%90a,+H%C3%A0+N%E1%BB%99i+100000,+Vi%E1%BB%87t+Nam/#21.0121535,105.8443773,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3135ab8ee6df247f:0xe6183d662696d2e9";
I have a String such as:
<div class="photo-box biz-photo-box pb-60s">
<a href="/biz/the-kerry-piper-willowbrook">
<img class="photo-img" alt="" height="60" src="http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/rCz-uF_qwqyb5Nnq74JeVQ/60s.jpg" width="60">
</a>
How can I retrieve the url
http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/rCz-uF_qwqyb5Nnq74JeVQ/60s.jpg
from this String?
I thought about string.indexOf() but the number of characters before and after url can vary therefore I don't know at which index this substring starts and this could be messy. Any best approach?
Use Jsoup to scrape/parse HTML from a URL, file, or string and use its jQuery like selector syntax.
String htmlStr="<div class=\"photo-box biz-photo-box pb-60s\">"
+ "<a href=\"/biz/the-kerry-piper-willowbrook\">"
+ "<img class=\"photo-img\" alt=\"\" height=\"60\" src=\"http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/rCz-uF_qwqyb5Nnq74JeVQ/60s.jpg\" width=\"60\">"
+ "</a>";
org.jsoup.nodes.Document doc=org.jsoup.Jsoup.parse(htmlStr);
String src=doc.select("img").attr("src");
System.out.println(src);
If you don't want to use an HTML parser, you could construct a regular expression and used the regex package to match the only the data you need.
Something like,
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("<img.*?src=\"([^\"]+)\"",Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
Matcher m = pattern.matcher(data);
while(m.find()) {
srcUrl = m.group(1));
}
I have a String holding a URL in this format: http://hello.world.com/service/sps/f4c0e810456t
And I would like to extract the last part of the URL, i.e. f4c0e810456t.
I can do it with substrings:
System.out.println(s.substring(s.lastIndexOf("/") + 1, s.length()));
Or regexp however looking for something more elegant using URL/URI objects but couldn't find something.
Any ideas...?
If you can change the URL to "http://hello.world.com/service/sps/?f4c0e810456t" then you could use the getQuery() method (both on URL and URI).
Example with URL and split (it wrap regular expression for you):
String address = "http://hello.world.com/service/sps/f4c0e810456t";
URL url = new URL(address);
String [] str = url.getPath().split("/");
String result = str[str.length-1];
I need a pattern matcher to get the page id value in the below text which is coming from a http response body.
<meta name="ajs-page-id" content="262250">
What i'm after is to get the content value from this line that will always be generated in responsebody.
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("<meta\\sname=\"ajs-page-id\"\\scontent=\"(\\d+)\">");
That is obviously a very literal pattern... but group(1) should return the number as a string.
Haven't tested.
Use an HTML parser like jsoup to parse and search for the part. You should not be using regular expressions for this.
e.g.,
String htmlStr = "<meta name=\"ajs-page-id\" content=\"262250\">";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlStr);
Element meta = doc.select("meta[name=ajs-page-id]").first();
if (meta != null)
{
System.out.println(meta.attr("content"));
}
I am trying to do some stuff with replacing String containing some URL to a browser compatible linked URL.
My initial String looks like this :
"hello, i'm some text with an url like http://www.the-url.com/ and I need to have an hypertext link !"
What I want to get is a String looking like :
"hello, i'm some text with an url like http://www.the-url.com/ and I need to have an hypertext link !"
I can catch URL with this code line :
String withUrlString = myString.replaceAll(".*://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", "HereWasAnURL");
Maybe the regexp expression needs some correction, but it's working fine, need to test in further time.
So the question is how to keep the expression catched by the regexp and just add a what's needed to create the link : catched string
Thanks in advance for your interest and responses !
Try to use:
myString.replaceAll("(.*://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/])", "HereWasAnURL");
I didn't check your regex.
By using () you can create groups. The $1 indicates the group index.
$1 will replace the url.
I asked a simalir question: my question
Some exemples: Capturing Text in a Group in a regular expression
public static String textToHtmlConvertingURLsToLinks(String text) {
if (text == null) {
return text;
}
String escapedText = HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(text);
return escapedText.replaceAll("(\\A|\\s)((http|https|ftp|mailto):\\S+)(\\s|\\z)",
"$1$2$4");
}
There may be better REGEXs out there, but this does the trick as long as there is white space after the end of the URL or the URL is at the end of the text. This particular implementation also uses org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils to escape any other HTML that may have been entered.
For anybody who is searching a more robust solution I can suggest the Twitter Text Libraries.
Replacing the URLs with this library works like this:
new Autolink().autolink(plainText)
Belows code replaces links starting with "http" or "https", links starting just with "www." and finally replaces also email links.
Pattern httpLinkPattern = Pattern.compile("(http[s]?)://(www\\.)?([\\S&&[^.#]]+)(\\.[\\S&&[^#]]+)");
Pattern wwwLinkPattern = Pattern.compile("(?<!http[s]?://)(www\\.+)([\\S&&[^.#]]+)(\\.[\\S&&[^#]]+)");
Pattern mailAddressPattern = Pattern.compile("[\\S&&[^#]]+#([\\S&&[^.#]]+)(\\.[\\S&&[^#]]+)");
String textWithHttpLinksEnabled =
"ajdhkas www.dasda.pl/asdsad?asd=sd www.absda.pl maiandrze#asdsa.pl klajdld http://dsds.pl httpsda http://www.onet.pl https://www.onsdas.plad/dasda";
if (Objects.nonNull(textWithHttpLinksEnabled)) {
Matcher httpLinksMatcher = httpLinkPattern.matcher(textWithHttpLinksEnabled);
textWithHttpLinksEnabled = httpLinksMatcher.replaceAll("$0");
final Matcher wwwLinksMatcher = wwwLinkPattern.matcher(textWithHttpLinksEnabled);
textWithHttpLinksEnabled = wwwLinksMatcher.replaceAll("$0");
final Matcher mailLinksMatcher = mailAddressPattern.matcher(textWithHttpLinksEnabled);
textWithHttpLinksEnabled = mailLinksMatcher.replaceAll("$0");
System.out.println(textWithHttpLinksEnabled);
}
Prints:
ajdhkas www.dasda.pl/asdsad?asd=sd www.absda.pl maiandrze#asdsa.pl klajdld http://dsds.pl httpsda http://www.onet.pl https://www.onsdas.plad/dasda
Assuming your regex works to capture the correct info, you can use backreferences in your substitution. See the Java regexp tutorial.
In that case, you'd do
myString.replaceAll(....., "\1")
In case of multiline text you can use this:
text.replaceAll("(\\s|\\^|\\A)((http|https|ftp|mailto):\\S+)(\\s|\\$|\\z)",
"$1<a href='$2'>$2</a>$4");
And here is full example of my code where I need to show user's posts with urls in it:
private static final Pattern urlPattern = Pattern.compile(
"(\\s|\\^|\\A)((http|https|ftp|mailto):\\S+)(\\s|\\$|\\z)");
String userText = ""; // user content from db
String replacedValue = HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(userText);
replacedValue = urlPattern.matcher(replacedValue).replaceAll("$1$2$4");
replacedValue = StringUtils.replace(replacedValue, "\n", "<br>");
System.out.println(replacedValue);