Can you enter a URL in a shiny app?

[Anandi_Merchant]

Beginner in Shiny app.
should I use textInput to enter a website URL? how can I pass it into the server function to be manipulated in the program?

ui <- fluidPage(
 textInput(inputId="txt", label="Enter Website", value ="http://...")

)

server <- function(input, output, session) {
 
  
  print(input$txt)
  
  #View(input$txt)
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

[williaml]

Welcome. It would be better to use sv_url() from shinyvalidate to ensure it is a url.

Validate that a field contains a URL — sv_url

[Anandi_Merchant]

Thanks!

Need more explanation: input it as a text or is there some other data structure I need to input it with

!inputValidator$add_rule()

print("it is not a URL")
}