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URL extractor

Pull http(s) links out of pasted text.

Runs in this tab. The file stays here.

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This runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

About URL extractor

Extract unique http(s) URLs from pasted text in your browser — no crawling, no upload.

Paste a dump of notes, a chat export, or a messy email and you often want every link in a clean list. Online extractors that 'help' by fetching each URL are a privacy foot-gun. This page only scans the text you paste and lists http/https matches.

Duplicates are collapsed so you get a usable set instead of the same tracking link twenty times. Nothing is fetched; a link that 404s still appears if it was in the text. Encoding quirks and bare domains without a scheme may be skipped — that is intentional, not a crawler.

Email and phone extractors sit beside this for the other common scrape-from-paste jobs. URL encode/decode under Developer is for transforming a single string, not harvesting a list.

How to use URL extractor

  1. 1Paste any text that may contain links.
  2. 2Review the list of unique http(s) URLs.
  3. 3Copy what you need; close the tab when finished.

What it won't do

  • Extraction only — no link checking or previews.
  • No bulk crawl of a site.

Common questions

Does the URL extractor visit or fetch the links?

No. It only pattern-matches in the pasted text. Your network tab should stay quiet.

Are duplicate URLs removed?

Yes — first occurrence wins so the list stays readable.

Will it find www.example.com without https?

It focuses on explicit http:// and https:// URLs. Scheme-less strings are easy to false-positive as ordinary words.

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Why this one doesn't upload your file

There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation

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