Extract username from url with regex

I am extracting usernames from urls using ^(?:https?://)?(?:www.)?(?:website.com)?/?([^/s]+). This method will return “username?lang=en”. How can i remove the “?lang=en” from the end ?

Answer

You can use

^(?:https?://)?(?:www.)?(?:website.com)?/?([^/s?#]+)

See the regex demo. Details:

• ^ – start of string
• (?:https?://)? – an optional occurrence of http:// or https://
• (?:www.)? – an optional occurrence of www. (note that the literal dot must be escaped)
• (?:website.com)? – an optional occurrence of website.com
• /? – an optional / char
• ([^/s?#]+) – Group 1: one or more chars other than /, whitespace, ? and # chars.