Python extract domain name from URL

Question

How to extract domain name from URL in Python? URLs have various formats as follows: Input: {code...} Output: {code...}

仅有的幸福 · Answer

Use Python’s built-in module urlparse

from urlparse import *
url = 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=blah-blah-blah-blah#gid=1'
result = urlparse(url)

result contains all the information of the URL

ringa_lee · Answer

Original source: Python practical script list

Extract domain name from URL

def extractDomainFromURL(url):
    """Get domain name from url"""
    from urlparse import urlparse
    parsed_uri = urlparse(url)
    domain = '{uri.netloc}'.format(uri=parsed_uri)
    return domain