Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

ID url

DatatypeNot PII

Address of a resource on a network that also says how to retrieve it: a scheme such as https, a host, an optional port, a path, a query and a fragment, as in https://www.example.com/docs?page=2#intro. URLs are the most common kind of URI (RFC 3986), and browsers follow the WHATWG URL Standard. The regexp covers http, https and ftp URLs whose host is a dotted domain name, an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address in brackets; other schemes are covered by uri.

Parent datatype

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) uri

Categories

Common, Internet

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

AutoType benchmark

url

Microsoft CDM

means.reference.URL

D3M

http://schema.org/URL

FTA

URI.URL

Google DLP

URL

Presidio

URL

Schema.org

url

Wikidata

P2699

Quality

100/100

Metacrafter rules

7 rules (5 by field name, 2 by value)

urlbyknownpat field, common/commonurl.yaml
urlbyvalidators data, common/commonurl.yaml
urlknownpat field, common/internet.yaml
websiteknown field, common/internet.yaml
ruurlknown field, de/de_internet.yaml
url data, ext/ext_internet.yaml
ru_internet_ruurlknown field, ru/ru_internet.yaml

Supported by tools

Alteryx Designer Cloud, Auctus, Auto-Type, Amazon Comprehend, Azure AI Language PII detection, Collibra Data Classification, csv-detective, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, Dataiku DSS, DataPrep, Capital One DataProfiler, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Google Data Studio, Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), Metabase, metacrafter, metacrafterpro, OpenMetadata auto-classification, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Presidio, Snowflake sensitive data classification, RedGate SQL Data catalog, Tableau, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory), Alteryx Woodwork

Regular expression

^(?:https?|ftp)://(?:[^\s/?#@]+@)?(?:[^\s/?#@:.\[\]]+(?:\.[^\s/?#@:.\[\]]+)+\.?|\[[0-9A-Fa-f:.]+\])(?::[0-9]{1,5})?(?:[/?#]\S*)?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
http://www.rdaregistry.info/xml/termList/AspectRatio.xml	RDA aspect ratio designation
http://vocab.getty.edu/doc/	Art & Architecture Thesaurus LOD Dataset
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1808.txt	Example of RFC 3986, section 1.1.2
www.example.com invalid	No scheme
mailto:John.Doe@example.com invalid	A URI without a host, not a web address

Child datatypes

ID	Name	Categories	Countries	Description
doi	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	science, identifiers	global	A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely, standardized by the...
purl	Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) draft	internet	global	URL on a PURL resolver that redirects to the current location of a resource, so that the published address keeps working when the...

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	URL (адрес ресурса)	Адрес ресурса в сети со схемой доступа, например https://www.example.com/docs.

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2699
schema.org: https://schema.org/URL
doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986
doc: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

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