Does it handle URLs in HTML?

Yes. The extractor matches URL patterns regardless of whether they appear inside HTML attributes (like href, src, or action) or as plain text in the page body. You can paste in raw HTML, scraped content, or copy-pasted rendered text and the same regex catches the URLs. Useful when you're processing email HTML, scraped pages, or anything else with mixed markup and content.

Can I extract specific protocols only?

Most tools support filtering. You can restrict to HTTPS only (useful for security-sensitive audits), exclude mailto links (when you want web URLs only), or build a custom allowlist of schemes you care about. The filter applies after extraction, so you can experiment with different combinations without re-running the underlying scan.

How are query parameters handled?

Query strings are preserved by default — 'https://example.com?id=123&utm_source=email' is extracted as a complete URL with the parameters intact. Some tools optionally strip query strings, which is useful when you want to deduplicate URLs that point to the same page but were captured with different tracking parameters. Whether to strip depends on what you're doing with the result.

Does it deduplicate URLs?

Yes, most tools deduplicate by default. The same URL mentioned multiple times in your input becomes a single entry in the output. Optional behaviors include sorting alphabetically, grouping by domain, and separating by protocol — all of which can make a long URL list dramatically easier to work with.

What about URL fragments (#section)?

Fragments are preserved by default. 'example.com#features' technically references the same page as 'example.com', but the fragment indicates a different navigation target on that page. Whether the extractor treats them as distinct or merges them is usually configurable. For redirect mapping you typically want to merge; for analytics you often want them separate.

Can I extract from a webpage live?

The basic version processes input text only. To extract URLs from a live page, copy the page source or rendered text and paste it in. Some more sophisticated tools include a URL input field that fetches the page server-side and extracts in one step, which is convenient but means the page request comes from their server rather than your browser.

Is the data sent to a server?

The extraction itself is client-side JavaScript regex matching, so the input text never leaves your browser. The exception is tools that offer live URL fetching, which by definition has to hit a server somewhere. For pure paste-text-get-URLs operation, you can verify by watching the network tab during extraction — there should be no outbound requests.

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About URL Extractor

Extract all URLs from any text. The tool finds HTTP and HTTPS URLs, handling query parameters and paths. It automatically removes trailing punctuation that might have been included by accident.

How to Use URL Extractor

Paste content

Drop in whatever text contains the URLs you're interested in — HTML source, email content, a long document, scraped page text, log file output. The tool processes the input as text and looks for URL patterns regardless of the surrounding markup or formatting.

Configure protocols

Decide which protocols you want to capture. The default is usually http and https, but you can include FTP, mailto, tel, and others if the tool supports them. Restricting to a specific subset (HTTPS only, for example) is helpful when you're doing security work and only care about certain schemes.

Review extracted URLs

You'll get back a deduplicated list of URLs, optionally sorted alphabetically or grouped by domain. Query parameters are preserved by default, though you can strip them if you want to merge URLs that point to the same page with different tracking. Spot-check the first few entries to make sure the regex picked up what you actually wanted.

Use the list

Take the extracted URLs into the next step of your workflow. For link audits, run each URL through an HTTP checker to verify it resolves. For broken-link reports, compare against your live site. For sitemap generation, format the list per the sitemap.xml spec. For security analysis, run suspicious URLs through reputation services before clicking anything.

When to Use URL Extractor

Link extraction from documents

You've got a long article or document and you want every URL it references — for a citation list, a link audit, a redirect map, or just to know what's being linked. The tool identifies anything that matches a URL pattern and gives you a clean list, which is dramatically faster than scrolling through and copying them by hand.

Web scraping output

Scraped content tends to come back as one mixed blob of text and markup. Extracting just the URLs gives you a starting point for building link databases, doing recursive crawls, or analyzing what a page links out to. The extraction itself is mechanical; what you do with the URL list afterward is where the actual research happens.

Email and log analysis

Pulling URLs out of emails matters for phishing investigation — what's the sender actually trying to send people to. In server logs, extracting URLs surfaces traffic patterns, referrer chains, and suspicious request paths. Both use cases benefit from a fast, mechanical extractor that gives you a list to dig into rather than asking you to skim raw text.

Migration and auditing

When you're moving a site or auditing existing content, you need a comprehensive list of the URLs in play. Extraction produces that list quickly, which then feeds into redirect mapping (so old URLs don't 404 after the migration), broken link checking, and sitemap generation. Doing this manually on a site with thousands of URLs is unrealistic; running an extractor takes seconds.

URL Extractor Examples

Standard URLs

Input

Visit https://example.com or http://other.org for more info.

Output

https://example.com\nhttp://other.org

Two URLs pulled cleanly out of a sentence with the surrounding text and connecting words ignored. The extractor recognizes the http:// and https:// schemes and trims trailing punctuation when appropriate, so a URL at the end of a sentence doesn't include the period. The output is one URL per line, ready for further processing.

Mixed protocols

Input

Connect via ftp://server.com, ssh://user@host, mailto:contact@example.com

Output

ftp://server.com\nssh://user@host\nmailto:contact@example.com — assuming the tool recognizes these protocols.

Multi-protocol support varies between extractors. The most comprehensive ones recognize FTP, SSH, mailto, tel, file, and a handful of others alongside HTTP. The simpler ones stick to http and https. If you need protocols beyond the basics, check what your tool supports before assuming everything will be picked up.

URLs without protocol

Input

Visit example.com or www.other.org

Output

Either just URLs with explicit schemes, or all URL-like strings — depends on how the tool's configured.

Some text contains 'naked' URLs without an explicit http or https prefix. Different tools handle these differently — some skip them entirely (since they're technically not valid URLs), others include them and silently add 'https://' as a default. This matters when you're processing older content where authors didn't always bother with the protocol.

Tips & Best Practices for URL Extractor

1.Decide what counts as a URL for your purposes. Are you only interested in HTTP and HTTPS, or do you also want FTP, mailto, tel links? Naked URLs without a protocol — include or skip? Most tools let you configure this; getting it right up front avoids re-running extraction later.
2.Verify the extracted URLs are real. Pattern matching catches anything that looks like a URL, which occasionally includes false positives like 'foo.bar' inside a string that's actually a filename. Click through a sample of the results to confirm the output makes sense.
3.Deduplicate, which most tools do by default. Long documents tend to mention the same URLs multiple times, and one entry per unique URL is what you almost always want. Some tools also let you keep counts of how often each URL appears, which is useful for prioritization.
4.Think about URL fragments. 'https://example.com#features' and 'https://example.com' technically point to the same page but represent different navigation targets. Whether you want to merge or distinguish them depends on what you're doing — for redirect mapping you usually want to merge, for analytics you sometimes want to keep them separate.
5.Be cautious about extracted URLs from untrusted sources. URLs from phishing emails, scraped malicious pages, or sketchy log files may lead somewhere you don't want to go. Don't just paste a URL into your browser to check it — verify the destination through safer means like a sandboxed environment or a URL-inspection service.
6.Extraction and broken-link checking are separate steps. The extractor just collects URLs; verifying that each one resolves to a working page requires actually issuing HTTP requests, which most extraction tools don't do. Plan for the second step in your workflow.

Frequently Asked Questions

By default, standard web URLs starting with http:// or https://. Most tools also recognize FTP, mailto, tel, and file URLs, with the exact list depending on the implementation. Some let you opt into 'naked' URLs without a protocol like 'example.com', though those are technically ambiguous since they could refer to a domain or just be a filename. Pick the configuration that matches what you're trying to find.

URL Extractor

About URL Extractor

How to Use URL Extractor

Paste content

Configure protocols

Review extracted URLs

Use the list

When to Use URL Extractor

Link extraction from documents

Web scraping output

Email and log analysis

Migration and auditing

URL Extractor Examples

Standard URLs

Mixed protocols

URLs without protocol

Tips & Best Practices for URL Extractor

Frequently Asked Questions

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