Regex for Looker Studio: Resources

Useful Regex

Identify social media sources:

(?i).*(facebook|fb|twitter\.com|linkedin|youtube|reddit|instagram|ig|vkontakt|blogger\.com|pinterest|tiktok|snapchat|threads\.net|discord\.com|whatsapp|quora|tumblr|vk\.com).*|x\.com|t\.co 

Match all AI sources

.*(\.ai$|copilot|chatgpt|openai|perplexity|bard\.google|gemini|claude|groq|\.metaai|you\.com).*

Count when variable contains

sum(case when REGEXP_Contains(variable,’Converted|Pending’) then 1 else 0 end)

Extract the top level of the landing page

REGEXP_EXTRACT(Landing page,'([^:/?\n]+)’)

Extract top level directory from full URL

REGEXP_EXTRACT(Page location, “^https://[^/]+/([^/]+)/“)

Extract second level category from full URL

REGEXP_EXTRACT(Page location,’^https://[^/]+/[^/]+/([^/]+)/

Regex resources

Regex101’s build and test tool

CRAN’s detailed RE2 expression reference

RexEgg’s cheat sheet




 
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