title: How can I extract a particular link from a string of HTML in JavaScript?
body: <p>I'm using the Flickr public API to build a small Express and React app. It returns a 'description' which is a string of HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;
      &lt;a href="URL"&gt;martin_king.photo&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:
  &lt;/p&gt; 
  &lt;p&gt;
      &lt;a href="URL_IMAGE" title="Potato Planting 2018 | FENDT // REEKIE"&gt;
          &lt;img src="URL_IMAGE" width="240" height="160" alt="DESC_PHOTO" /&gt;
      &lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt; 
      FENDT 412 Vario TMS with the REEKIE ScanStone Separator &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Follow Us: &lt;br/&gt; • 
      &lt;a href="URL" rel="nofollow"&gt;Facebook - DYNASTYphotography&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt; • 
      &lt;a href="URL" rel="nofollow"&gt;Lukaskralphoto Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt; • 
      &lt;a href="URL" rel="nofollow"&gt;my personal Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt; • 
      &lt;a href="URL" rel="nofollow"&gt;YouTube Channel&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;/p&gt;
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  <p>The first <code>a</code> tag there contains the link I need, I just need some help writing a function/RegExp that can help me extract it. This is my intended result:</p>
  
  <pre><code>getFirstLinkFromDescription = string =&gt; ... // 1st 'URL'
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  <p>Thanks for any help!</p>