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:     Read More