MySQLdata extraction

Extract Domain from URL in MySQL with Regex

Use MySQL REGEXP_SUBSTR to extract the domain name from URL columns. SQL examples for URL domain extraction and analytics.

The Regex Pattern

Regex pattern

^https?://([^/]+)

Use this pattern with MySQL's REGEXP operator.

MySQL SQL Example

-- Extract the base domain from full URLs stored in a MySQL table using REGEXP_SUBSTR for domain-level analytics
SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE your_column REGEXP '^https?://([^/]+)';

How This Works

Extract the base domain from full URLs stored in a MySQL table using REGEXP_SUBSTR for domain-level analytics. The regex pattern is used with MySQL's REGEXP operator to filter rows at the database level.

Using regex directly in SQL is efficient for use cases like data extraction โ€” it avoids loading data into application memory just to filter it with a regex.

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