Twitter status URL regex

I have an existing regex:

/^http:\/\/twitter\.com\/(\w+)\/status(es)*\/(\d+)$/

that I use for determining if a URL is a twitter status update URL. Eg.

http://twitter.com/allWPthemes/status/2040410213974016

But ever since "new" twitter came out, they have changed the status URL's to look like :

http://twitter.com/#!/allWPthemes/status/2040410213974016

with the added /#!

So my question is : How can I modify my regex to match both URL's?

My final failed attempt was:

^http:\/\/twitter\.com\/(#!\/w+|\w+)\/status(es)*\/(\d+)$

Try this: /^https?:\/\/twitter\.com\/(?:#!\/)?(\w+)\/status(es)?\/(\d+)$/

This will match both the original URLs and the new hash tag URLs.

If you just want to match the new URLs, this should do it: /^https?:\/\/twitter\.com\/#!\/(\w+)\/status(es)?\/(\d+)$/

approved answer will not match shared twitter URLs like this: https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/982270433385824260?s=19 because end of string flag "$"

// working solution
/^https?:\/\/twitter\.com\/(?:#!\/)?(\w+)\/status(es)?\/(\d+)/

test: https://regex101.com/r/mNsp3o/4

Your solution is pretty close. You can simply add the #!/ as an optional element like this:

(#!\/)?

So the full regex would look like this:

/^http:\/\/twitter\.com\/(#!\/)?(\w+)\/status(es)*\/(\d+)$/

Ewww! ☺ Don’t uses slashes as the regex quoting delimiter when you have slashes inside that would therefore need backwhacking. Otherwise you get icky LTS (Leaning Toothpick Syndrome) and an infectious case of backslashitis to boot.

Something like this is much better:

    m!http://twitter.com/(#!/)?\w+/status(es)?/(\d+)$!

or

    m{http://twitter.com/(#!/)?\w+/status(es)?/(\d+)$}

or if you don’t need to capture portions:

    m{http://twitter.com/(?:#!/)?\w+/status(?:es)?/(?:\d+)$}

or if you want to make it readable:

    m{ http:// twitter.com / ( \x23 ! / )? \w+ / status (es)? / (\d+) $ }x

which is even beter when broken up across multiple lines so you can comment it:

    m{ 
           http:
        // twitter.com
        /  ( \x23 ! / )?       # optional new "#!" element
           \w+ 
        / status (es)?         # one or more statuses
        / ( \d+ ) 
          $
     }x

@Kevin answer updated.

^https?:\/\/twitter\.com\/(?:#!\/)?(\w+)\/status(?:es)?\/(\d+)(?:\/.*)?$

Matches both:

https://twitter.com/someone/status/866002913604149248
https://twitter.com/someone/status/857179125076963329/video/1

You can run them by yourself here:

https://regex101.com/r/mNsp3o/3