Extract Urls
Extract every URL and web link from any block of text in one click, output as a clean list. No signup. Ideal for pulling links from emails, documents, code and exports.
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This tool extracts every URL from a block of text and gives you a clean list of links, directly in your browser. Paste your text, and the tool finds all the web addresses buried in it, separating them from the surrounding words. No account, no install, so you can pull links out of an email, document or data export on any device in seconds.
How to Extract URLs From Text Step by Step
- Paste your text. Drop the text containing links into the input box. It can be an email, a document, source code, a chat log, or any content where URLs are mixed in with other text.
- Extract the URLs. The tool scans the whole text and pulls out every web address it finds, recognising the patterns that make up a valid link and separating them from the words around them.
- Get a clean list. The extracted URLs appear as a list, typically one per line, so you can see every link at a glance without the surrounding prose or formatting.
- Deduplicate if needed. Text often contains the same link several times. If you want each unique URL once, deduplicate the list so repeated links are collapsed to a single entry.
- Copy the links. Copy the clean list of URLs into a spreadsheet, a browser, a document or a script, ready to visit, check, or process without manually hunting through the text.
What a URL Is and Why Extracting Links Is Fiddly
A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is the address of a resource on the web, the string starting with http or https that points a browser to a specific page or file. URLs have a defined structure, a protocol, a domain, an optional path and query parameters, and this structure is what allows a tool to recognise them within a mess of other text. Identifying where a URL starts and ends is the core of link extraction.
Extracting URLs is fiddlier than it sounds because links appear in many forms and contexts. Some are full addresses with https at the front, some omit the protocol, some are wrapped in punctuation or brackets, and some sit inside markup or code. A link at the end of a sentence may have a full stop attached that is not part of the URL. Good extraction recognises the valid link and leaves the surrounding punctuation behind.
The need to extract links arises whenever URLs are trapped in text you cannot easily click or copy individually. An email full of links, a document referencing many sources, a data export with addresses in a column, a code file with embedded URLs, all bury links among other content. Pulling them into a clean list turns scattered, hard to use references into an organised set you can act on systematically.
Once extracted, a list of URLs becomes genuinely useful in ways the original text was not. You can check them for broken links, load them into a browser, feed them into a script that visits each one, compare them, or count how many unique domains they represent. The extraction step converts prose containing links into structured data, which is the precondition for doing anything systematic with the links themselves.
This Tool Versus Copying Links by Hand
| Method | Strengths | Weaknesses | Best for |
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| This online tool | Instant, finds every link, clean list output, works on any device | One block at a time, may capture unwanted trailing characters | Quickly pulling links out of any text |
| Copying links by hand | No tools, full control | Slow and error prone, easy to miss one | A single link you can select |
| Browser find and select | Works within a page | Tedious for many links, does not give a clean list | Grabbing one visible link on a page |
| Regex in a code editor | Customisable to your exact needs | Requires regex skill and an editor | Developers with specific extraction rules |
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After extracting, deduplicate with our Remove Duplicate Lines tool and order the list using Sort Text Lines. To pull email addresses instead, the Extract Emails tool targets those, and Extract Numbers handles numeric data.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I extract all URLs from a block of text?
Paste your text into the input box and the tool scans it, finding every web address and giving you a clean list, usually one link per line, separated from the surrounding words. Copy the list to use elsewhere. This is far faster and more reliable than hunting through the text and copying each link by hand, especially when the text contains many links.
Will the extraction include trailing punctuation on links?
A good extraction strips punctuation that is clearly not part of the URL, but a full stop, comma or bracket at the end of a sentence can sometimes get attached to a link. It is worth scanning the results, because a URL with a stray trailing character will fail when you try to visit it. Removing any such characters ensures every extracted link works.
Can it extract links that do not start with http?
The tool recognises common URL patterns, but links that omit the http or https protocol prefix may be captured without it or, depending on their format, missed. When you need to open or process the extracted links, check whether each has a protocol, and add http or https where a browser or script requires the complete address to function.
How do I get a list of unique links without duplicates?
Text often contains the same URL several times, so the raw extraction may include repeats. To get each unique link once, run the extracted list through a remove duplicate lines tool, which collapses the repeats into single entries. This gives you a clean list of distinct URLs, which is what you usually want for checking, cataloguing, or counting the links.
What is the difference between extracting URLs and emails?
Extracting URLs pulls out web addresses, the links starting with http or a domain, while extracting emails targets the specific pattern of an email address with an at sign and a domain. If your text contains both and you want them separated, use the dedicated email extraction tool for the addresses and this tool for the links, giving you two clean, distinct lists.
Why did it miss some links in my text?
Links in unusual formats, split across lines, wrapped in uncommon markup, or deliberately obfuscated, may not match the patterns the extraction recognises. If the number of links found is lower than you expected, inspect the source text for URLs in formats the tool did not catch, and you may need to reformat them or extract them manually.
Is there a limit on how much text I can process?
There is no fixed limit for typical use, and the tool handles anything from a short message to a large document directly in your browser, extracting the links quickly. Everything runs locally on your device, keeping your text private. For extremely large files, a script with custom rules may be more efficient, but for everyday text the online tool is instant.
Is the URL extractor free?
Yes, it is completely free with no account and no usage limit. You can extract links from as many pieces of text as you like, as often as you like, at no cost. It runs entirely in your browser on any device, so there is nothing to download or install, and your text is processed locally on your own machine for privacy.