Collect the links from an email or document
Paste a long message or meeting notes and get only the addresses mentioned.
URL extractor
Find web addresses inside a block of text, automatically remove duplicates, and get a clean list ready to copy or reuse.
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How does this tool work?
This extractor finds every web address starting with http:// or https:// in a text, an email, a chat export or HTML code, then returns a clean, duplicate-free list, one URL per line. Punctuation that follows an address at the end of a sentence is removed, so the list can be reused straight away.
The tool looks for each run of characters starting with http:// or https:// and stops at the first space, angle bracket (< or >) or quotation mark. In HTML, href="…" values are therefore extracted cleanly.
A full stop, comma, semicolon, colon, exclamation or question mark at the end of an address is removed; a closing parenthesis or bracket is removed if its opening one is not in the URL, as in “(see https://example.com)”.
Exact duplicates are removed while keeping the order of first appearance; the Sort result option sorts the list alphabetically.
The counter shows how many unique URLs were found.
How to use this tool
Paste the text
In the Source text field: plain text, HTML, Markdown or an export.
Choose the order
Tick Sort result for alphabetical order; otherwise the order of appearance is kept.
Extract
Click Extract; the number of items found is shown.
Copy the list
One URL per line, ready for a spreadsheet or another tool.
Use cases
List a page’s outgoing links
Paste the source code and extract every absolute URL to check or redirect it.
Prepare a checklist
Build a list to run through the URL validator or a crawler afterwards.
Examples
Sentence with punctuation and a duplicate
The final full stop is removed from both mentions of the pricing page, which now count only once; sorting puts the documentation first.
Input
Source text: See https://example.com/tarifs. Docs: https://docs.example.com/api (v2) and https://example.com/tarifs.
Sort result ✓Result
2 item(s) found
https://docs.example.com/api
https://example.com/tarifsTips and best practices
- Addresses without a scheme (www.example.com, example.com) are not detected: add https:// or use your editor’s search.
- Relative links in HTML (/contact) are not extracted; only absolute URLs are.
- Two URLs that differ only in case or a trailing slash remain two separate entries.
- When a URL is stuck to a word with no space, the address may include that word: check unusually long lines.
Sources and references
- RFC 3986 — Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax (opens in a new tab), RFC EditorPage in English
Frequently asked questions
Are email addresses extracted?
No. Only URLs starting with http:// or https:// are kept; mailto: links and bare email addresses are ignored.
Why is the final full stop missing from the URL?
Because a full stop, comma or exclamation mark at the end of an address almost always belongs to the sentence. The tool removes them, as well as a closing parenthesis with no opening one in the URL.
Is a URL that contains parentheses kept?
Yes, if the opening parenthesis is part of the address, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_(disambiguation): the closing parenthesis is then kept.
Is there a size limit?
The tool sets no limit: everything is processed in memory by your browser, which handles texts of several megabytes.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. The extraction runs in your browser.
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