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Parsing browser User Agents

PCRE (PHP <7.3)
From a (fairly large) list of User Agent strings, extract the OS, Browser, and Device Type.
Submitted by OnlineCop - 10 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
33

Strict Password Validator

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
This regex matches only when all the following are true: password must contain 1 number (0-9) password must contain 1 uppercase letters password must contain 1 lowercase letters password must contain 1 non-alpha numeric number...
Submitted by qho - 7 years ago (Last modified a year ago)
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CSS Color Matcher

ECMAScript (JavaScript)
Pattern matching and extracting color code formats using RegEx. https://github.com/Kyza/color-regex/
Submitted by Kyza - a year ago
30

Cron schedule

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
Validate cron lines (even the ones commented out)
Submitted by anonymous - 8 years ago
20

best youtube id match ( iframe embed replace ready )

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PCRE (PHP <7.3)
MATCH ANY YOUTUBE ID author : mi-ca v1.0 – 2017.03.08 This Regex match any youtube url and grab the ID. Embed ready √ --...
Submitted by mi-ca.ch - 6 years ago
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Regular Expression
Python

r"
^(?P<scheme>http(?:s)?:\/\/)?(?P<www>www\d?\.)?(?P<domain>\b(?!www\d?\.)[a-z\d\-]+(?:\.[a-z\d\-]{2,})+)(?P<port>:\d{1,5})?(?P<path>\/(?:[-a-zA-Z0-9._~!$&\'()*+,;=:@]|%[0-9a-fA-F]{2})*)*(?P<query_fragm>[?#&][\/\_\-\&\%\?\#\+\=\.:a-zA-Z\d]*)*$
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Description

Matches in python valid urls (excludes some edge cases), but pretty good to verify an URL before scraping it

Submitted by anonymous - a year ago (Last modified a year ago)