diff --git a/src/Defaults/index.ts b/src/Defaults/index.ts
index c21e2bb..564581f 100644
--- a/src/Defaults/index.ts
+++ b/src/Defaults/index.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ export const PROTOCOL_VERSION = [5, 2]
 export const MOBILE_NOISE_HEADER = Buffer.concat([Buffer.from('WA'), Buffer.from(PROTOCOL_VERSION)])
 /** from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3809401/what-is-a-good-regular-expression-to-match-a-url */
 export const URL_REGEX = /(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/
-export const URL_EXCLUDE_REGEX = /[\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}/
 
 export const WA_CERT_DETAILS = {
 	SERIAL: 0,
diff --git a/src/Utils/messages.ts b/src/Utils/messages.ts
index 42d477a..8681d4b 100644
--- a/src/Utils/messages.ts
+++ b/src/Utils/messages.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { randomBytes } from 'crypto'
 import { promises as fs } from 'fs'
 import { Logger } from 'pino'
 import { proto } from '../../WAProto'
-import { MEDIA_KEYS, URL_EXCLUDE_REGEX, URL_REGEX, WA_DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL } from '../Defaults'
+import { MEDIA_KEYS, URL_REGEX, WA_DEFAULT_EPHEMERAL } from '../Defaults'
 import {
 	AnyMediaMessageContent,
 	AnyMessageContent,
@@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ const ButtonType = proto.Message.ButtonsMessage.HeaderType
  * @param text eg. hello https://google.com
  * @returns the URL, eg. https://google.com
  */
-export const extractUrlFromText = (text: string) => (
-	text.split(' ').find(word => URL_REGEX.test(word) && !URL_EXCLUDE_REGEX.test(word)) || undefined
-)
+export const extractUrlFromText = (text: string) => text.match(URL_REGEX)?.[0]
 
 export const generateLinkPreviewIfRequired = async(text: string, getUrlInfo: MessageGenerationOptions['getUrlInfo'], logger: MessageGenerationOptions['logger']) => {
 	const url = extractUrlFromText(text)