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In my Django app, I need to get the host name from the referrer in request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER') along with its protocol so that from URLs like:

I should get:

I looked over other related questions and found about urlparse, but that didn't do the trick since

>>> urlparse(request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')).hostname
'docs.google.com'
You should be able to do it with urlparse (docs: python2, python3):
from urllib.parse import urlparse
# from urlparse import urlparse  # Python 2
parsed_uri = urlparse('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234567/blah-blah-blah-blah' )
result = '{uri.scheme}://{uri.netloc}/'.format(uri=parsed_uri)
print(result)
# gives
'http://stackoverflow.com/'
                this answer adds a / to the third example http://www.domain.com, but I think this might be a shortcoming of the question, not of the answer.
– SingleNegationElimination
                Mar 9, 2012 at 1:36
                I don't think this is a good solution, as netloc is not domain: try urlparse.urlparse('http://user:[email protected]:8080') and find it gives parts like 'user:pass@' and ':8080'
– starrify
                Oct 21, 2014 at 8:02
                The urlparse module is renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3. So, from urllib.parse import urlparse
– SparkAndShine
                Jul 21, 2015 at 21:37
                This answers what the author meant to ask, but not what was actually stated. For those looking for domain name and not hostname (as this solution provides) I suggest looking at dm03514's answer that is currently below. Python's urlparse cannot give you domain names. Something that seems an oversight.
– Scone
                Jul 18, 2018 at 18:27
https://github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract
This is a more verbose version of urlparse.  It detects domains and subdomains for you.
From their documentation:
>>> import tldextract
>>> tldextract.extract('http://forums.news.cnn.com/')
ExtractResult(subdomain='forums.news', domain='cnn', suffix='com')
>>> tldextract.extract('http://forums.bbc.co.uk/') # United Kingdom
ExtractResult(subdomain='forums', domain='bbc', suffix='co.uk')
>>> tldextract.extract('http://www.worldbank.org.kg/') # Kyrgyzstan
ExtractResult(subdomain='www', domain='worldbank', suffix='org.kg')
ExtractResult is a namedtuple, so it's simple to access the parts you want.
>>> ext = tldextract.extract('http://forums.bbc.co.uk')
>>> ext.domain
'bbc'
>>> '.'.join(ext[:2]) # rejoin subdomain and domain
'forums.bbc'
                This is the correct answer for the question as written, how to get the DOMAIN name. The chosen solution provides the HOSTNAME, which I believe is what the author wanted in the first place.
– Scone
                Jul 18, 2018 at 18:29
from urllib.parse import urlsplit
url = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url"
base_url = "{0.scheme}://{0.netloc}/".format(urlsplit(url))
print(base_url)
# http://stackoverflow.com/
>>> import urlparse
>>> url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234567/blah-blah-blah-blah'
>>> urlparse.urljoin(url, '/')
'http://stackoverflow.com/'
Pure string operations :):
>>> url = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url"
>>> url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0].split('?')[0]
'stackoverflow.com'
>>> url = "stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url"
>>> url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0].split('?')[0]
'stackoverflow.com'
>>> url = "http://foo.bar?haha/whatever"
>>> url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0].split('?')[0]
'foo.bar'
That's all, folks.
                @SimonSteinberger  :-) How'bout this : url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0].split('?')[0] :-))
– SebMa
                Feb 5, 2018 at 16:16
The standard library function urllib.parse.urlsplit() is all you need. Here is an example for Python3:
>>> import urllib.parse
>>> o = urllib.parse.urlsplit('https://user:[email protected]:8080/dir/page.html?q1=test&q2=a2#anchor1')
>>> o.scheme
'https'
>>> o.netloc
'user:[email protected]:8080'
>>> o.hostname
'www.example.com'
>>> o.port
>>> o.path
'/dir/page.html'
>>> o.query
'q1=test&q2=a2'
>>> o.fragment
'anchor1'
>>> o.username
'user'
>>> o.password
'pass'
                it's won't be a problem, if there are no more slashes then, the list will return with one element. so it will work whether there is a slash or not
– Jeeva
                Apr 13, 2019 at 7:09
urls = [
    "http://stackoverflow.com:8080/some/folder?test=/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url",
    "Stackoverflow.com:8080/some/folder?test=/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url",
    "http://stackoverflow.com/some/folder?test=/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url",
    "https://StackOverflow.com:8080?test=/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url",
    "stackoverflow.com?test=questions&v=get-domain-name-from-url"]
for url in urls:
    spltAr = url.split("://");
    i = (0,1)[len(spltAr)>1];
    dm = spltAr[i].split("?")[0].split('/')[0].split(':')[0].lower();
    print dm
Output
stackoverflow.com
stackoverflow.com
stackoverflow.com
stackoverflow.com
stackoverflow.com
Fiddle: https://pyfiddle.io/fiddle/23e4976e-88d2-4757-993e-532aa41b7bf0/?i=true
                This is not a solution for the question because you do not provide protocol (https:// or http://)
– Nairum
                Oct 15, 2019 at 14:31
Is there anything wrong with pure string operations:
url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-domain-name-from-url'
parts = url.split('//', 1)
print parts[0]+'//'+parts[1].split('/', 1)[0]
>>> http://stackoverflow.com
If you prefer having a trailing slash appended, extend this script a bit like so:
parts = url.split('//', 1)
base = parts[0]+'//'+parts[1].split('/', 1)[0]
print base + (len(url) > len(base) and url[len(base)]=='/'and'/' or '')
That can probably be optimized a bit ...
                it's not wrong but we got a tool that already does the work, let's not reinvent the wheel ;)
– Gerard
                Jun 12, 2013 at 2:33
I know it's an old question, but I too encountered it today.
Solved this with an one-liner:
import re
result = re.sub(r'(.*://)?([^/?]+).*', '\g<1>\g<2>', url)
import re
url = 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=blah-blah-blah-blah#gid=1'
result = re.search(r'^http[s]*:\/\/[\w\.]*', url).group()
print(result)
#result
'https://docs.google.com'
import urlparse
def uri2schemehostname(uri):
    urlparse.urlunparse(urlparse.urlparse(uri)[:2] + ("",) * 4)
that odd ("",) * 4 bit is because urlparse expects a sequence of exactly len(urlparse.ParseResult._fields) = 6
url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-protocol-host-name-from-url'
root_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, '/')
print(root_url)
This is the simple way to get the root URL of any domain.
from urllib.parse import urlparse
url = urlparse('https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/')
root_url = url.scheme + '://' + url.hostname
print(root_url) # https://stackoverflow.com
to get domain/hostname and Origin*
url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9626535/get-protocol-host-name-from-url'
hostname = url.split('/')[2] # stackoverflow.com
origin = '/'.join(url.split('/')[:3]) # https://stackoverflow.com
*Origin is used in XMLHttpRequest headers
If it contains less than 3 slashes thus you've it got and if not then we can find the occurrence between it:
import re
link = http://forum.unisoftdev.com/something
slash_count = len(re.findall("/", link))
print slash_count # output: 3
if slash_count > 2:
   regex = r'\:\/\/(.*?)\/'
   pattern  = re.compile(regex)
   path = re.findall(pattern, url)
   print path
        
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