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Extract All Links from Any Website in Python

Scrape a webpage and extract all absolute HTTP/HTTPS links using requests and regex.

web-scraping links requests
Python 
import requests
import re
from urllib.parse import urljoin

def extract_links(url):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()
        html = response.text
        # Find all href attributes in anchor tags
        pattern = r'href=["\'](.*?)["\']'
        raw_links = re.findall(p…
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