URL Extractor

Paste any block of text into the input box and the tool scans it character by character for anything that looks like a web address. It recognizes full links that start with http:// or https://, protocol-relative links that start with //, and bare domains like example.com/page when you enable that option. Every match is pulled into a clean, copyable list. All of this happens in your browser, so even a huge paste is processed instantly.

They solve two different problems. The Link Extractor fetches a live web page and pulls the links out of its HTML, so you give it a URL. This URL Extractor works on text you already have: an email, a chat export, a CSV, a code file, a PDF you copied from, or a document. You paste the raw text and it finds every URL inside it. Use the Link Extractor for a page that is online, and use this tool for text in your clipboard.

Yes, deduplication is on by default. If the same URL appears five times in your text, the list shows it once. You can turn dedupe off if you need every occurrence, for example when you are counting how many times a link was mentioned. The result counter always shows both the total matches found and the unique count so you know exactly what was removed.

Yes. Copy the column or the whole sheet and paste it in. Commas, tabs, quotes, and line breaks are all treated as separators, so the URLs are extracted cleanly regardless of the surrounding spreadsheet formatting. This is a fast way to turn a messy export into a clean link list you can shorten, audit, or import elsewhere.

Only if you enable the "include bare domains" option. By default the tool extracts links that have a real protocol (http:// or https://) because those are unambiguous. Bare domains like example.com are riskier to detect because ordinary sentences contain things that look like domains (filenames, version numbers, abbreviations). Turning the option on adds a stricter domain pattern that requires a valid top-level domain, which catches real bare domains while avoiding most false positives.

Yes. You can keep the original order they appeared in the text, or sort them alphabetically. Alphabetical sorting groups links from the same domain together, which makes it easy to scan, spot duplicates across paths, and review a large list. The sort is applied after deduplication so you always see a clean, ordered set.

Yes. Type a domain into the filter box (for example youtube.com) and the list narrows to only URLs on that domain. This is useful when a long email or document mixes links from many sites and you only care about one of them, such as pulling every YouTube link out of a script or every Amazon link out of an affiliate roundup.

Your text never leaves your browser. The extraction runs entirely in client-side JavaScript with no network request, so nothing you paste is sent to or stored on our servers. The optional history feature keeps your last few extractions in your browser localStorage only, and you can clear it at any time. You can safely paste private emails, internal documents, or client data.

There is no fixed limit because the work happens locally on your device. You can paste a few links or tens of thousands of lines from a log file or export, and the tool extracts them in one pass. Very large pastes are capped at a sensible number of displayed results for performance, but the copy and CSV export always include the full set.

Yes. Alongside the copy button there is a CSV export that downloads every extracted URL as a one-column file, ready to open in Excel or Google Sheets or to import into another tool. You can also copy the list as plain text, one URL per line, which is the format most bulk tools and shorteners expect.

A clean URL list is the starting point for a lot of link work. You can bulk-shorten them into branded short links with Flyn, check whether they are still alive with the Broken Link Checker, strip tracking parameters with the URL Cleaner, or audit their rel attributes. Extracting the URLs from your text is step one; the related tools below handle what comes after.

Yes. Markdown link syntax like [text](https://example.com) and HTML like <a href="https://example.com"> both contain real URLs, and the extractor pulls the address out of them just like it does from plain text. If you paste a chunk of source code or a Markdown document, you get back the clean list of destinations without the surrounding syntax.