regex - Python regular expression again - match url

Question

I have such regexp:

 re.compile(r"((https?):((//)|(\\))+[wd:#@%/;$()~_?+-=\.&]*)", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)

But that doesn't include hashbangs (#!). What I need to change, to get it working? I know I can add ! to group with #@% etc, but that will select something like

Check this out: http://example.com/something/!!!

and I want to avoid that.

Answer 1

Don't try to make your own regular expression for matching URLs, use someone else's who has already solved such problems, like this one.