php - regex to print url from any webpage with specific word in url

Solution:

Make your regex un-greedy and it should work:

$regex = '|<a.*?href="(.*?super[^"]*)"|is';
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However to parse and scrap HTML it is better to use php's DOM parser.

Update: Here is code using DOM parser:

$request_url ='1900girls.blogspot.in/';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request_url);    
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
$result = curl_exec($ch);

$doc = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$doc->loadHTML($result); // loads your html
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$needle = 'blog';

$nodelist = $xpath->query("//a[contains(@href, '" . $needle . "')]");
for($i=0; $i < $nodelist->length; $i++) {
    $node = $nodelist->item($i);
    echo $node->getAttribute('href') . "\n";
}
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