URL Extractor
Extract all links and URLs from any text.
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The URL Extractor scans any block of text and lists every web address that starts with http:// or https://, one per line, in the order they appear. Paste an email, a WhatsApp chat export, a document, HTML source or a sitemap, and you get a clean list of links to check, save or share.
What the extractor recognises as a URL
A match begins with http:// or https:// and continues until it reaches a space, a line break, a single or double quote, a < or > sign, or a closing bracket ). That makes it work well with:
- HTML source: addresses inside attributes stop at the closing quote.
- XML sitemaps:
<loc>https://example.com/about-us</loc>yields just the address, so you can list every page in a sitemap in one paste. - Markdown links: in
[docs](https://x.com/a)the closing bracket ends the match. - Query strings: parameters such as
?id=5&page=2are kept in full.
Example: links from a chat
[10:42 am] Ravi: check this https://maps.app.goo.gl/AbC123 and the form at https://forms.gle/xyz789. [10:45 am] Neha: also https://example.com/a?b=1&c=2, thanks
The result:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/AbC123 https://forms.gle/xyz789. https://example.com/a?b=1&c=2,
Notice the full stop and the comma at the end of the second and third links. Punctuation that follows a link in a sentence is included, so delete it before you open or save the list.
What it misses or gets wrong
- Addresses without a scheme:
www.example.comorexample.comon their own are not found. - Capital letters in the scheme:
HTTPS://is not matched, only lowercase http and https. - Other link types:
ftp://,mailto:and phone links are ignored. For email addresses, use the email extractor. - Brackets inside URLs: an address such as a Wikipedia page ending in
_(planet)is cut at the closing bracket, losing its last character. - Duplicates are kept: a link that appears five times is listed five times. Run the output through the Duplicate Line Remover for a unique list.
- No checking: the tool does not visit the links, follow redirects or test whether a page still exists.
Practical uses
- Collecting every form, drive and meeting link shared in a busy class or office group.
- Auditing the outbound links in an article or newsletter before it goes out.
- Turning a sitemap into a plain list of pages for an SEO audit or redirect plan.
- Gathering references and sources from notes or research documents.
Extraction runs in your browser, so pasted chats and documents stay on your device. If the links you collect are percent-encoded and hard to read, the URL decoder turns them back into readable text.