Extract Every URL From Any Text — Without a Script
Sitemaps, audit logs, scraped pages, email threads, CSV exports, old bookmark dumps — messy text full of links is everywhere, and the moment you need just the URLs, hand-copying them is a losing game. The usual workaround is a one-off regex or a spreadsheet formula, both of which break the first time a URL contains parentheses, query strings, or trailing punctuation. Our URL Extractor pulls every http://, https://, and www. link out of any block of text in real time, handles the edge cases, and hands you a clean list you can copy or download. Nothing leaves your browser — the whole thing runs client-side.
What Makes URL Extraction Tricky
- Trailing punctuation — a sentence ending in "…at https://example.com." should not capture the final period. The extractor trims it.
- Wrapped URLs — links inside parentheses, quotes, or markdown
[]()syntax get cleanly separated from the wrapper characters. - Query strings and fragments —
?utm_source=twitterand#sectionare part of the URL and are preserved intact. - Case duplicates —
Example.com/Pageandexample.com/pageoften refer to the same resource; the lowercase option collapses them. - Scheme-less links — bare
www.wikipedia.org/articleis captured even withouthttp://.
Common Workflows
SEO audits: paste a sitemap XML, competitor page source, or crawl log and get the full link inventory in seconds — then dedupe and sort before loading into your crawler of choice. Outreach: collect every author-linked site from a guest-post roundup without visiting each page. Data cleaning: strip tracking parameters by extracting, editing in bulk, and pasting back. Security review: scan an email or document for every embedded link — including shorteners — before anyone clicks. For structure-aware extraction with pattern control, pair it with the Regex Extractor; to verify the emails hiding in the same text, use the Email Validator.
Built for Heavy Input
The extraction engine is debounced — it waits for you to stop typing (or pasting) before recomputing — and the results list renders a capped first page so a 50,000-URL input stays buttery instead of freezing the tab. The full list is always available through Copy All or Download, so the display cap never limits your data. Everything runs locally in JavaScript: no upload, no queue, no server that can see your links.