Extracting a URL in Python

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In response to the OP’s edit I hijacked Find Hyperlinks in Text using Python (twitter related) and came up with this:

import re

myString = "This is my tweet check it out http://example.com/blah"

print(re.search("(?P<url>https?://[^\s]+)", myString).group("url"))

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