URL Extractor
TextExtract all URLs from any text, detecting http, https, www and bare domains. Get a deduplicated list from web page source, chat logs or documents in one pass.
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About URL Extractor
This URL extractor uses an optimized regex to pull all hyperlinks from arbitrary text, covering http, https, www, and FTP formats. The engine follows RFC 3986 URI syntax, handling URLs with ports, query strings, fragments, and IPv4 addresses. Results are auto-deduplicated and ordered by first appearance, and can be exported as a plain-text list. It is also worth knowing the tool's limits. URLs allow far more characters than ordinary English words, so matching applies word-boundary rules to trailing period, closing-bracket, and comma characters to avoid clipping punctuation into the link, though rare cases with adjacent CJK punctuation may need a manual check. A common trap is wrapped lines in email bodies: some clients break long URLs across two lines, and the inserted newline can truncate the match, so rejoin any manual line wraps before extracting from email text. Everything runs locally in your browser with no network requests, ideal for pulling links out of pasted articles, server logs, or scraped HTML before bulk-checking or crawling.
How to Use
- Open the URL Extractor tool
- Paste the text to process
- Adjust the output options as needed
- Click the Process button; results appear in real time
- Copy or export the result
Use Cases
- Extract outbound links — Pull all hyperlinks from HTML source for SEO backlink analysis and reciprocal link checking.
- Log link auditing — Extract anomalous URLs from server access logs to quickly locate problem requests and crawler paths.
- Email link inspection — Check all hyperlinks in email bodies to identify phishing links or broken addresses.
- Document link inventory — Extract all reference links from Markdown or text documents to generate a link inventory.
- Data cleaning and dedup — Extract URLs from crawler results and auto-deduplicate to reduce redundant fetch requests.
- Backlink indexing check — Pull an outbound link list and compare it with search-engine index data to find what needs submission.
FAQ
Can it extract links without http prefix?
Yes. The tool auto-detects www-prefixed domain links and also supports full http and https protocol formats.
Are results deduplicated?
Yes. A URL appearing multiple times in the text is listed only once, ordered by first appearance.
Will trailing punctuation be clipped into the link?
No. Boundary rules exclude trailing periods, closing brackets, and commas; rare cases with adjacent CJK punctuation may need a manual check.
Does it support FTP protocol links?
It supports http, https, ftp, and other common protocols. For mailto and other special schemes, a dedicated extractor is recommended.
Can it handle URLs with special characters?
Yes. The tool is RFC 3986 compliant and correctly identifies internationalized URLs with percent-encoding and Unicode characters.
What about long URLs wrapped in emails?
Some email clients break long links across two lines, and the newline can truncate the match; rejoin manual line wraps before extracting from email text.
Is my data secure?
Yes. All extraction runs locally in the browser via the regex engine with no network requests, safe for sensitive text.