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#  Overview
The **`replace_urls()`** method in **Python** replaces all the URLs in a given text with the replacement string.


## What is `clean-text`?

**`clean-text`** is a third-party package that pre-processes text data to obtain a normalized text representation.

The package can be installed using the [pip](https://www.educative.io/answers/installation-uninstallation-of-packages-in-python) command. We can check the following command to install the `clean-text` package.

```python3
pip install clean-text
```


## Syntax

```python
replace_urls(text, replace_with="<URL>")
```

## Parameters

- **`text`**: This is the text data.
- **`replace_with`**: This is the replacement string.


## Return value

The method returns the text data where the URLs are replaced by the replacement string.

##
## Example

import cleantext

string = """hello educative - https://educative.io - hello edpresso"""

new_string = cleantext.replace_urls(string, replace_with="EDU_URL")

print("Original String - '" + string + "'")
print("Modified String - '" + new_string + "'")

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## Explanation

- **Line 1**: We import the `cleantext` package.
- **Line 3**: We define a string with an URL.
- **Line 5**: We replace the URL in the string with `EDU_URL` using the `replace_urls()` method.
- **Lines 7–8**: We print the original and modified string.

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What is the replace_urls() method in Python?

Replaces URLs in text with a specified string using clean-text package. Installation: pip install clean-text.

What is the replace_urls() method in Python?

Overview

What is clean-text?

Syntax

Parameters

Return value

Example

Explanation

What is `clean-text`?