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Awesome Regex
Awesome Regex curates regular expression libraries, tools, frameworks, and software.

About Awesome Regex
Awesome Regex is an open source GitHub repository that curates a categorized list of regular expression libraries, tools, frameworks, and software. The stated goal is a community-driven collection of well-known resources. The list is organized into sections such as documentation, prototyping and testing, generators, security, learning, libraries, articles, books, benchmarks, and cheat sheets.
The repository is a set of links rather than a tool itself. Its prototyping section names online regex testers and visualizers, its generators section lists tools that build patterns from example text, and its security section includes a command-line tool for testing patterns for ReDoS vulnerabilities. The homepage excerpt is truncated, so sections beyond the learning resources are not fully visible. Suggestions and contributions are accepted under the repository's contribution guidelines and quality standard.
Key features
- Categorized links to regular expression references for several languages
- Listed online regex testers and visualizers for prototyping patterns
- Listed generators that build regular expressions from example strings
- Security section listing SafeRegex for ReDoS vulnerability testing
- Learning resources including tutorials, an online book, and a Wikipedia entry
- Sections for articles, books, benchmarks, and cheat sheets
- Resources are grouped by purpose, such as testing, generation, security, and learning.
- Open source repository that accepts suggestions and contributions from the community.
- Most entries are links to external sites and tools, which are not hosted in this repository.
- The homepage excerpt is truncated, so the full contents are not visible here.
Awesome Regex at a glance
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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