i'm using node-red-node-email to read email.
What I want is to extract a URL from the email body, and send only that onwards, how can I do this?
Unless the URL is in the exact same place each time, probably best to use a regular expression.
E.g...
"Regular expression to find URLs within a string - Stack Overflow" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6038061/regular-expression-to-find-urls-within-a-string
tried regex but it doesn't work
Sure it does. Post a sample string containing a URL.
I tried a few examples from your link, they either still allow the whole message through or nothing at all. the URL format is always: https://example.com/page/ it never has www and sometimes has an underscore within /page/.
I copied one of the regex from that page i linked to & it worked...
msg.payload = msg.payload.match(/(?:(?:https?|ftp|file):\/\/|www\.|ftp\.)(?:\([-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\)|[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.])*(?:\([-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\)|[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$])/igm);
return msg;
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Thanks, that works.
I was using the switch node....
Out of curiosity, how would I do it if it was in the same place every time?
You could use JS string functions like indexOf and/or split to break up the string and find the URL. Just stick with the regex if it works
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