URL Extractor
Extract URLs from any block of text. Paste content, get a clean list of links, and copy results for review, crawling, or quick sharing.
Enter your Texts
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What this does
When a page or a document is littered with links and you just want the links themselves, this pulls them out. Paste the text and the tool gathers every web address it can spot into a single list, which you can then copy and use however you like. No more hunting through paragraphs to find where the links are hiding.
How to use it
- Drop your text into the box on the left.
- Press Get URLs, and the links collect in the panel on the right.
- Tap Copy to take the list, or Clear to wipe both panels.
The work is done right here in your browser, so even a private document of links stays on your side of the screen.
Which links it finds
The tool looks for proper web addresses that begin with a protocol, the bit at the very start of a link. That means anything starting with http:// or https:// is picked up, and ftp:// links are caught too for the times you are dealing with file servers. From that starting point it grabs the rest of the address up to the next space. So a full link like https://example.com/page comes through complete.
A few things to watch
The most important thing to know is that the link needs its protocol on the front. A bare address like www.example.com or just example.com, with no http:// in front, will not be recognised, because the tool keys off that opening part. If your text is full of links written without the protocol, they will not show up, and that is the usual reason for a thinner list than expected.
One more quirk. Since the tool reads a link up to the next space, any punctuation pressed right against the end of a link with no gap, like a full stop or a closing bracket, can get pulled in along with it. So you might occasionally see a stray character on the tail of a link. It is easy to trim, just keep half an eye out for it. And repeated links are all listed, they are not collapsed into one.
When it comes in handy
This earns its place whenever links are the thing you care about. You might be auditing a page to see every outbound link it points to, gathering a list of sources from a long document, pulling the links out of an email or an export, or building a quick list to feed into something else. Instead of clicking through the text and copying each one, you get the whole set in a few seconds and move straight on to the actual work.
Questions people ask
Why did it miss www.example.com?
Because that address has no protocol in front of it. The tool only catches links that begin with http://, https://, or ftp://, so a bare address slips by.
Why is there a full stop stuck on the end of a link?
The tool reads a link until it hits a space, so punctuation jammed against the end with no gap gets included. Just trim the last character when it happens.
Does it find ftp links too?
Yes. Alongside ordinary web links, addresses that start with ftp:// are picked up as well.
Does it remove duplicate links?
No, every match is listed, repeats and all. Remove any duplicates yourself once the list is copied out.
Sarayu is an Assistant Lecturer at Herald College, currently studying Masters of Engineering at KU. She is a Software engineer and educator who enjoys writing, and publishes essays and articles. She helps to review word/text utilities for clarity and usability.