Extract Urls from Text in PHP

Extract URL's from a string using PHP

REGEX is the answer for your problem. Taking the Answer of Object Manipulator.. all it's missing is to exclude "commas", so you can try this code that excludes them and gives 3 separated URL's as output:

$string = "The text you want to filter goes here. http://google.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0,https://instagram.com/hellow/";

preg_match_all('#\bhttps?://[^,\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^,[:punct:]\s]|/))#', $string, $match);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($match[0]); 
echo "</pre>";

and the output is

Array
(
    [0] => http://google.com
    [1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_m7NEDMrV0
    [2] => https://instagram.com/hellow/
)

extract specific URLs from text

What you are looking for is a negative lookahead:

$regex = '/https?:\/\/(?!\[GoTo\]|\[NextURL\]|[^\" ]*\/i\/[^\" ]+|[^\" ]*\/t\/[^\" ]*)[^\" ]+/i';

?! at the beginning of a submatch should prevent matching for URLs with the enclosed pattern. This might need tweaking for specific corner cases, but with the problem as stated, this should get you what you need.

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