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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def validate_url(cls, url: str) -> Optional[Match[str]]: """Check if the Extractor can handle the given url."""

        match = re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url)
        return match