URL Extractor

What Is the URL Extractor?

It finds every link in text or HTML source and lists them. It removes punctuation that ends a sentence, drops duplicates, can filter links by a word such as a domain name, and can show just the domains. Links are only read from your text - they are never opened.

When to Use It

• Collecting all links from a document, a chat export or meeting notes.
• Listing the external links in a page's HTML source.
• Getting the list of domains a page or email links to.

How to Use It

1. Paste the text or HTML.
2. Choose full URLs or domains only, and optionally a word that links must contain.
3. Copy the list or download it as a text file.

Example

From a paragraph that links to a blog post in brackets, a docs page with a full stop straight after it, www.example.org/start and the docs page again, the extractor returns three URLs: https://byteary.com/blog/dns-records-explained, https://example.com/docs?page=2 and www.example.org/start. The closing bracket and the full stop are removed, and the repeated link appears once.

How Links Are Recognised

A link must start with http://, https://, ftp:// or www.. Trailing commas, full stops and quote marks are removed, and a closing bracket is removed only when there is no matching opening bracket in the link - so Wikipedia-style links such as .../Python_(programming_language) stay whole.

Limitations

Bare domains without www. or a scheme, such as example.com, are not picked up, to avoid matching file names like report.pdf. Links built by JavaScript or hidden behind buttons are not in the HTML text. To break a URL into its parts, use the URL Parser; to see where a link leads, use the Redirect Checker.