Remove HTTPS or HTTP From URL Python

To remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL, we can use:

• the replace() built-in function
• Regex

Remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL using replace()

replace() is a built-in function to replace a specified value with another.

replace() Syntax

string.replace(old_value, new_value, count)

• old_value: the value that we want to be replaced
• new_value: the value that replaces the old value
• count: number of how many times you want to replace the value

Remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL Examples

in the following example, we'll use replace() to remove HTTPS from a URL string.

url = "https://pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

new_url = url.replace("https://", "") # 👉️ Remove "https" from URL

print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

pytutorial.com

As you can see, to remove HTTPS from the URL, we've replaced https:// with an empty value. We can do the same thing if we want to remove HTTP.

url = "http://pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

new_url = url.replace("http://", "") # 👉️ Remove "http" from URL

print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

pytutorial.com

You can see the code below if you want to remove HTTPS and HTTP from the URL. This method works when we want to remove whatever protocol comes with the URL HTTPS or HTTP.

url = "https://pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

new_url = url.replace("https://", "").replace("http://", "") # 👉️ Remove "HTTPS" and "HTTP" from URL

print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

 Output:

pytutorial.com

Let's an example with www in the URL.

url = "https://www.pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

new_url = url.replace("https://", "").replace("http://", "") # 👉️ Remove "HTTPS" and "HTTP"

print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

www.pytutorial.com

If you want to remove www, add another replace() function like the following example.

url = "https://www.pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

new_url = url.replace("https://", "").replace("http://", "").replace("www.", "") # 👉️ Remove "HTTPS" and "HTTP" and "WWW"

print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

pytutorial.com

Remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL using Regex

sub() is a regex method for replacing a match or more with a string. We can also use this method to remove HTTPS or HTTP from URLs. 

sub() Syntax

re.sub(pattern, new_value, string, count=0, flags=0)

re. sub accepts five parameters, but the most important for us is:

• Pattern: The regular expression that you want to match.
• new_value: The value that replaces the pattern
• string: String target
• count:  How many times do you want to replace the value

Remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL Regex Examples

In the following example, we'll remove HTTPS and HTTP from The URL.

import re # 👉️ Import re module

url = "https://www.pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

pattern = "https?://" # 👉️ pattern

new_url = re.sub(pattern, "", url) # 👉️ Remove HTTPS and HTTP from URL
 
print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

www.pytutorial.com

In the following examples, we'll also remove www from the URL.

import re # 👉️ Import re module

url = "https://www.pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

pattern = "https?://www.?" # 👉️ pattern

new_url = re.sub(pattern, "", url) # 👉️ Remove HTTPS and HTTP and WWW from URL
 
print(new_url) # 👉️ Print

Output:

pytutorial.com

Remove HTTPS or HTTP from URL Script

Let's write a simple function that removes HTTPS, HTTP, and WWW from a URL using Regex.

import re # 👉️ Import re module

def rm_https(url):
    return re.sub("https?://www.?", "", url) # 👉️ Remove HTTPS and HTTP and WWW from URL

This function accepts URL as the parameter. Now let's see how to use it.

url = "https://www.pytutorial.com" # 👉️ URL

rm = rm_https(url) # 👉️ Remove HTTPS and HTTP and WWW from URL
 
print(rm) # 👉️ Print

Output:

pytutorial.com

Conclusion

In conclusion, we've learned two ways to remove HTTPS and HTTP from URLs. The first way is replace(), and the second is the re.sub().

If you want to remove HTTPS from a URL, the replace() way is recommended because it is faster. On the other hand, if you want to replace more matches, using the re.sub() is your best choice.

You can download the code of this tutorial, on github Github Code

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