I've searched all the other Regex on Google Analytics questions but I can't use the answers as this is pretty specific to my problem.
I want to set a destination URL goal but use Regex to flag it as a goal IF string includes /general/
I basically want to track everyone in GA who goes to a Vehicle Detail Page but /general/ brings them to a Search Results Page.
so in other words
/used-cars/general is not correct
/used-cars/citreon/ is correct
/used-cars/TOYOTA/ is correct
Basically, any other car maker is correct after /used-cars/ regardless if it is capitalized or not.
Thanks in advance, everyone.
Your regex is on the right path, but you should escape any special characters. Try the below instead:
/used\-cars/(citreon|TOYOTA|RENAULT|VOLKSWAGEN|VAUXHALL|HONDA|BMW|NISSAN|PEUGEOT|DS|FORD|HYUNDAI|INFINITI|MERCEDES\-BENZ|MITSUBISHI)/
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I am creating a google form and trying to create a regex on of the fields because I need them to enter a profile link from a specific website. I'm a beginner with regex and this is what I have come up with:
/^(http:\/\/)?(steamcommunity\.com\/id\/)*\/?$/
But when I go to enter a test link such as: http://steamcommunity.com/id/bagzli it fails it. I don't understand what is wrong about it.
You missed a dot (meaning any character) after the (/id\). Try this:
/^(http:\/\/)?(steamcommunity\.com\/id\/).*\/?$/
^-- added
The ultimate goal of what I was trying to accomplish is to ensure that certain text was entered in the box. I thought I had to use Regex to accomplish that, but google forms also has "Text Contains" feature which I made use of to solve my problem. The regex by Zoff Dino did not work, I am not sure why as it seems completely correct.
I will mark this as resolved as I managed to get my answer, even if it was not via regex.
I'm trying to isolate links from html using a regex and the one I found that is suppose to do it doesn't seem to work.
/^(http?:\/\/)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})([\/\w \.-]*)*\/?$/
Am I missing something? I'm using Brackets as my text editor
^(?:http|https):\/\/(?:[a-z0-9\-\.]+)(?::[0-9]+)?(?:\/|\/(?:[\w#!:\.\?\+=&%#!\-\/\(\)]+)|\?(?:[\w#!:\.\?\+=&%#!\-\/\(\)]+))?$
Messy, but works.
Also, you might want to look at a similar question: Regex expression for valid website link
Hope this helps :)
It is hard to make it 100% accurate.
A url could also be a IP address for example.
http://ip/
It can contain query strings.
http://www.google.com/?a=1&b=2
It can contain spaces.
http://www.google.com/this is my url/
It depends on what need you have for accuracy.
I'm relatively new to regex and in order to set up a goal in Google Analytics, I'd like to use a regular expression to match a URL containing both "thank-you" and "purchaseisFree=False" but exclude two specific rate plans that are represented in the URL as "productRatePlanID=5197e" and "productRatePlanID=c1760".
Here is a full URL example:
https://www.examplepage.com/thank-you?productRatePlanId=5197e&purchaseIsFree=False&grossTotal=99.95&netTotal=99.95&couponCode=&invoiceNumber=INV00000589
I tried using this post as a model and created this regex:
\bthank-you\b.+\purchaseIsFree=False\b(?:$|=[^c1760]|[^5197e])
However, I'm not getting the desired results. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I think the below mentioned regex should solve your problem. It uses the positive|negative look ahead facility. We can sit at the beginning of http[s] and check all the three condition and then engulp the whole tree
(https?:\/\/)(?=.*?productRatePlanId=(?!5197e&)(?!c1760&))(?=.*?thank-you)(?=.*?purchaseisFree=False).*
Note:- I have used & after the productRatePlanId values just to ensure it doesnt ignore other values as 5197f, 5198d and all other sorts of values.
I am attempting to set up a goal funnel in Google Analytics. It is for an online quote request system that we want to track. Basically all the pages that contain the quote request form have unique dynamically generated urls that are similar. The form of the URL is:
/quoterequest/categoryone/categorytwo/productname/
I have regex that works for tracking that:
^/quoterequest/([A-Za-z0-9/-]+)?
Today we added a thank you page after the user submits the form. The URL is always the same for that:
/quoterequest/thanks/
I would like to modify the above regex so that it continues to match any of the Quote Request URLs, but NOT that thank you URL. I have been trying different variations, including t. he negative look ahead,but unfortunately I am not very experienced with regex and I think I've been doing it completely incorrectly. Can anyone give me some insight as to the correct method of doing this?
You can use:
^\/quoterequest\/(?!thanks\/?$)(?:([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)\/?)*$
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I want to extract URLs from a webpage these are just URLs by themselves not hyperlinks etc., they are just text. Some examples would be http://www.example.com, http://example.com, www.example.com etc. I am extremely new at regex so I have copy and pasted like 20 expressions online all failed to work. I don't know if I am doing it right or not. Any help would be really appreciated.
I wrote a post on using Regex to locate links within a HTML page (the intent was to use JavaScript to open external links or links to documents such as PDF's etc in a popup window).
The final regex was:
^(?:[./]+)?(?:Assets|https?://(?!(?:www.)?integralist))
The full post is here:
http://www.integralist.co.uk/javascript/regular-expression-to-open-external-links-in-popup-window/
The solution wont be perfect but might help point you in the right direction.
Mark
You're probably not escaping your .s. You need to use \. for each one.
Take a look at strfriend.com. It has a URL example, and represents it graphically.
The example it suggests is:
^((ht|f)tp(s?)://|~/|/)?(\w+:\w+#)?([a-zA-Z]{1}([\w-]+.)+(\w{2,5}))(:\d{1,5})?((/?\w+/)+|/?)(\w+.\w{3,4})?((\?\w+=\w+)?(&\w+=\w+)*)?