Rails regex to fetch Twitpic link / code if present

Question

The URL is provided in a line of text (tweet) like

"Check out my twitpic http://twitpic.com/1876544594 its awesome

I need a Rails regex that will return 18744594, the id of this particular twitpic ...

This question was asked here but was for PHP and I need it for Rails.

I would and could get the name of the site, so the text between the http: // and .com "twitpic"

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Rabbott Apr 28 10 at 4:13

1 answer

YOU · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-28T04:26:08+0000

To extract 18744594

only

/http:\/\/twitpic\.com\/(\d+)/

To extract twitpic

and18744594

/http:\/\/(twitpic)\.com\/(\d+)/