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Regular Expressions to Match Social Media Profiles

This repository lists regular expressions to match and extract information from URLs of social media profiles. So if you find a hyperlink to this repo somewhere on the web, i.e. https://github.com/lorey/social-media-profiles-regexs/, the regular expressions in this repo allow you find out it's a Github link pointing to a repo as well as extract the username lorey and the repo name social-media-profiles-regexs from this URL.

Features:

  • detect the platform a url points to (all major platforms supported)
  • extract the information contained within the url (without opening the url, of course)
  • extract emails and phone numbers from hyperlinks

Please note: If you want to extract social media links, depending on your case, there are possibly easier ways:

  • I've created a Python library called socials that uses these expressions to automate url detection and data extraction. You input the urls, it extracts the type of platform as well as the contained information, e.g. the linked social media profiles.
  • There's also a Socials API which makes the socials python package available via REST and JSON. You can use it for free at socials.karllorey.com or deploy it yourself. You simply input any URL you want to extract profiles from. It will then fetch and return all social media links from the given website. Try it here.

If you're missing a particular platform, please feel free to add it. Also feel free to add a test that does not work. An explanation of how this repo works can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md. You might also open an issue, of course, I'm happy to help!

Table of Contents

{% for platform in data -%}

  • [{{ platform }}](#{{ platform|replace(" ", "-") }}) {% endfor -%}
  • Monster Regex

{% for platform, types in data.items() %}

{{ platform }}

{% for type in types %}

{{ type }}

{{ data[platform][type].regex }}

{{ data[platform][type].note }}

Examples: {% for url in data[platform][type]["tests"] %} {%- if data[platform][type]["tests"][url] %}

  • {{ url }} {%- endif -%} {%- endfor %} {% endfor %} {% endfor -%}

Monster Regex

If you want to match and extract the data from all urls with one regex, use this monster. It will return the data for all the platforms above. The regex subgroups are prefixed with the platform, e.g. angellist__company instead of just company in the angellist company regex, as some regex implementations don't support defining subgroups more than once which would introduce errors if the same subgroup name is used in two or more platforms.

{{ monster_regex }}