Extract all the URLs from the webpage Using Python

Overview

In this script, we are going to use the re module to get all links from any website.

One of the most powerful function in the re module is "re.findall()".

While re.search() is used to find the first match for a pattern, re.findall() finds *all* the matches and returns them as a list of strings, with each string representing one match.

• Scraping websites with Python
• BeautifulSoup Intro
• Using urllib2 with BeautifulSoup in Python

Get all links from a website

This example will get all the links from any websites HTML code.

To find all the links, we will in this example use the urllib2 module together with the re.module

import urllib2
import re

#connect to a URL
website = urllib2.urlopen(url)

#read html code
html = website.read()

#use re.findall to get all the links
links = re.findall('"((http|ftp)s?://.*?)"', html)

print links

Happy scraping!