: GREP rule to catch all types of web link / URL I'm looking to build a robust, reliable GREP rule to catch all web links and URLs that appears in text, covering all possible characters and

I'm looking to build a robust, reliable GREP rule to catch all web links and URLs that appears in text, covering all possible characters and gotchas like HTTPS, or URLs in brackets like (http://whatever.com), or followed by punctuation like whatever.com?! It's for an InDesign paragraph style GREP rule.

I've put the best I've come up with so far down below as an answer - is it missing anything, is there anything more robust or straightforward?

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This seems to work pretty well:

https?://.*?(?=()|.|,|?|!|"|')*($|s))

Start with either or

https?://

...then match the shortest uninterrupted string of any characters
-.*?
...that is followed by, but doesn't include

the (?= ) "positive lookahead"

...zero or more of any common punctuation - ) . , ? ! and any type of single or double quotation mark, curly or straight, left or right

()|.|,|?|!|"|')*

...and then either the end of the paragraph or any type of whitespace

($|s)

Some testing:

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