Extract domain from URL in python

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I have an url like:
http://abc.hostname.com/somethings/anything/

I want to get:
hostname.com

What module can I use to accomplish this?
I want to use the same module and method in python2.

5 Answers

For parsing the domain of a URL in Python 3, you can use:

from urllib.parse import urlparse

domain = urlparse('http://www.example.test/foo/bar').netloc
print(domain) # --> www.example.test

However, for reliably parsing the top-level domain (example.test in this example), you need to install a specialized library (e.g., tldextract).

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