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, duplicate removal is on by default, and so is Smart dedupe. If the same URL appears five times in your text, the list shows it once, and near-identical copies such as http://example.com/page and https://www.example.com/page/ collapse into one entry as well. The first occurrence in the text is kept as written (bare domains and protocol-relative // links get https:// added). Turn Remove duplicates off if you need every occurrence, for example when you are counting how many times a link was mentioned. Whenever something is removed, the counter shows how many URLs were found and how many duplicates were dropped, split into exact repeats and variants when Smart dedupe merged any.

Smart dedupe compares URLs after ignoring the differences that almost never change the page you land on: http versus https, a leading www., uppercase letters in the domain, a trailing slash, and the #fragment at the end. So HTTP://WWW.Example.com/pricing/#plans and https://example.com/pricing count as one URL. The path and query string are otherwise compared as written and case-sensitively, because many servers treat /Page and /page, or ?id=1 and ?id=2, as different resources, and fragments that look like single-page-app routes (#/ or #!) are kept too. Click Show merged variants under the results to see each variant and the URL it was folded into, or switch Smart dedupe off for exact, character-for-character matching.

Yes, with the Ignore tracking params option, which is off by default. When it is on, Smart dedupe drops utm_ parameters and common click IDs such as fbclid, gclid, msclkid, and ttclid before comparing, so https://example.com/post?utm_source=newsletter and https://example.com/post count as the same link. Every other parameter still has to match, so ?id=1 and ?id=2 stay separate. It is off by default because a tagged link is sometimes exactly what you want to keep, for example when auditing which campaigns a page was shared in. The kept URL keeps its tags as written; to strip them from the list itself, run it through the URL Cleaner.

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. Paste it into the Bulk URL Opener to open the links in batches of tabs, pull their root domains with the URL to Domain Extractor, strip tracking parameters with the URL Cleaner, or bulk-shorten the links into branded short links with Flyn. Extracting the URLs from your text is step one, and the first three of those tools are linked below.

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.