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JavaScript example of Gruber's URL matching regex http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
//Gruber wrote this regex for matching URLs, but it took a small amount of massage to use it in JavaScript. So here.
//Sauce: http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
var p = /\b((?:https?:\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/i;
p.exec('party fun www.twitter.com yay') //winning.
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Unfortunately it doesn't accept "pinterest.com/p" as an url

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