🔗 Extract URLs
Paste any block of text and instantly extract every URL and link found. One URL per line, with an option to remove duplicates. Free, private, no signup.
About the URL Extractor
This tool scans any block of text for URLs starting with http:// or https:// and lists them one per line. It works on plain text, HTML source, Markdown, emails, documents and any other text that contains links. Everything runs in your browser with no data sent to a server.
Strip Trailing Punctuation
In natural language text, URLs are sometimes followed by a period, comma or closing parenthesis — for example "Visit https://example.com.". Enable Strip Trailing Punctuation to automatically clean these characters off the end of each extracted URL.
Common Use Cases
- Extracting all links from a web page's HTML source code
- Pulling URLs out of a long document or email thread
- Building a link list from scraped or exported content
- Auditing all outbound links in a block of marketing copy
- Collecting citation URLs from an academic text
- Deduplicating repeated links found in newsletters
Why You Need to Extract URLs from Documents
Writers and researchers often need to extract URLs from long content quickly. An editor reviewing a 10,000-word article to audit every outbound link would take hours manually. Using a tool to extract URLs takes seconds. The same applies to SEO professionals who extract URLs from competitor content to analyse their link strategy, or content teams that extract URLs from newsletters to build a curated resource list.
Developers regularly need to extract URLs from API responses, log files and scraped HTML to feed into further processing. Pasting a JSON payload or raw HTML page into an extract URLs tool instantly gives you a clean list without writing a custom script — particularly useful during prototyping when a plain URL list is all that is needed before building a proper parser.
Absolute vs Relative URLs When You Extract URLs
This tool only matches absolute URLs starting with http:// or https://. Relative URLs like /page or ../image.png are not extracted because they require domain context to resolve. If your source contains relative URLs, prepend the base domain before running the extract URLs tool to capture them correctly.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of URLs does this extract?
+The tool extracts any URL beginning with http:// or https://. This includes URLs with paths, query strings, fragments and subdomains. Very long URLs with special characters and encoded characters are handled correctly.
Can I extract URLs from HTML source?
+Yes. The extractor finds URLs anywhere in the text including inside HTML attributes like href, src and action. Paste raw HTML source and all absolute URLs will be extracted. Relative URLs like /page or ../image.png are not matched since they lack the http/https prefix.
Why are some URLs cut off?
+In prose text, URLs are sometimes followed immediately by punctuation like a full stop or comma. Enable Strip Trailing Punctuation to remove these from extracted URLs. If you are extracting from HTML or code, this option is usually not needed.
Is the extraction private?
+Completely private. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your text is never sent to any server, stored or logged. You can safely process confidential documents, internal pages or proprietary content.
What URL formats are detected?
The tool detects http://, https://, ftp://, and www. URLs. It also finds URLs inside HTML attributes like href and src, and removes duplicates automatically.