import re urls = ''' https://www.google.com http://coreyms.com https://youtube.com https://www.nasa.gov ''' pattern = re.compile(r'https?://(www\.)?(\w+)(\.\w+)') subbed_urls = pattern.sub(r'\2\3', urls) print(subbed_urls) # matches = pattern.finditer(urls) # for match in matches: # print(match.group(3))