GitHub Repository URL Regex Pattern

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Pattern Breakdown

Code Examples

const regex = /github\.com\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)/g;
const test = "https://github.com/facebook/react";
console.log(regex.test(test)); // true

// Extract matches
const matches = test.match(regex);
console.log(matches);

import re

pattern = r'github\.com\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)'
test = "https://github.com/facebook/react"
match = re.findall(pattern, test)
print(match)  # Found!

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "regexp"
)

func main() {
    re := regexp.MustCompile(`github\.com\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)\/([a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)`)
    fmt.Println(re.MatchString("https://github.com/facebook/react")) // true
}

Common Use Cases

Match Examples

About the GitHub Repository URL Regex

Extracts owner and repository name from GitHub URLs. Used in dependency management and open source tooling.

Regular expressions (regex) are powerful pattern matching tools used across virtually all programming languages. The github repository url pattern is classified as beginner difficulty in the web & html category. It works in all major programming languages.

When using this regex, always consider edge cases and test thoroughly with real-world data. Use the interactive tester above to validate the pattern against your specific inputs before deploying to production.

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