I had to roll my own regex solution for translating embedded links within text to clickable html links. Stuff on the web had too many false positives. Hope it helps!
Javascript:
/(((http(s?)(:\/\/))?([w]{3}\.)?)([a-z|0-9])+\.(com(\.au)?|org|me|net|ly|be|gl|info|(co(\.))?uk|ca|nz|tv)(\/[^\s]+)*)+/g
PHP:
"/(((http(s?)(:\/\/))?([w]{3}\.)?)([a-z|0-9])+\.(com(\.au)?|org|me|net|ly|be|gl|info|(co(\.))?uk|ca|nz|tv)((\/[^\s]+)*)+)/"
Properly detects the urls in the following formats:
Including subpaths:
