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Grab image id from flickr URL with regular expression in python
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regex flickr url id in python
url = 'https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3943/15386021170_c2607cb639_z.jpg'
#\d+ match digits; \D+ match a non-digit which is "/" after the 1st 4 digits; (d\+) get the last set of digits, in group(6)
re.search(r'^(https://)?(farm4\.)?(staticflickr\.com/)?(\d+)?(\D+)(\d+)',url).group(6)
#returns 15386021170
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