Extract URLs
Find and extract every HTTP/HTTPS link from a block of text, returning one URL per line.
What Is Extract URLs?
A URL extractor scans any block of text and pulls out all web addresses — detecting http://, https://, and www. prefixed URLs and presenting them as a clean, copyable list. Paste web page source code, a document full of links, a social media post with embedded URLs, or any text containing web addresses, and the tool identifies and extracts every URL in one pass.
URL extraction is essential for link auditing, SEO analysis, broken link checking, and content migration. Manually finding all links in a long document or web page source is time-consuming and error-prone. This tool automates the extraction so you can immediately feed the link list into a link checker, a crawler, or a spreadsheet for analysis. It's particularly useful for auditing backlinks in exported reports, extracting references from research documents, and finding all linked resources in a web page's HTML.
See also: Extract Email Addresses, Strip HTML Tags, Remove Duplicate Lines, Find & Replace
Visit https://example.com or https://test.org→https://example.com
https://test.orgWho Should Use This Tool?
Extract all URLs from pages, sitemaps, and backlink reports for broken link checking, redirect auditing, and link profile analysis.
Pull reference links from research documents, articles, and web pages into a structured list for source verification and citation management.
Extract links from HTML source code, API responses, and text files for crawling, monitoring, and content pipeline processing.
Key Use Cases
- →Extract all hyperlinks from a web page's HTML source for a broken link audit or site migration inventory.
- →Pull reference URLs from a research document or article to compile a bibliography or check all cited sources.
- →Extract URLs from a backlink export report to feed into a batch HTTP checker for redirect and 404 verification.
- →Collect all links from a social media post archive or exported thread for a link-click analysis project.
- →Extract image and asset URLs from an HTML page for a CDN migration or asset inventory project.
How to Use Extract URLs
- Paste or type your text into the Input Text box.
- The result appears instantly on the right.
- Click Copy to copy the output to your clipboard.
- Click Clear to reset and process new text.
Common Mistakes & Pro Tips
- !Expecting extracted URLs to be valid and live — the extractor identifies URL patterns in text; it doesn't verify that the URLs are reachable, return 200 status, or haven't been replaced. Always follow up with a link checker to validate extracted URLs.
- !Not handling URL-ending punctuation — URLs at the end of sentences may be followed by a period that gets included in the extracted URL. "Visit example.com." might extract "example.com." with a trailing period. Review extracted URLs for trailing punctuation before using them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Extract URLs
What URL formats does the extractor detect?
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The extractor detects URLs starting with http://, https://, and www. prefixes. A standard URL pattern includes the protocol, domain, optional path, optional query parameters, and optional fragment. Examples: https://example.com/path?param=value#section. URLs without a protocol or www prefix (like "example.com") are generally not extracted since they're indistinguishable from plain domain mentions in text.
Will it extract URLs from HTML anchor tags?
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Yes — paste HTML source code and the extractor will find URLs in href="" attributes, src="" attributes, data-url attributes, and any other context where a URL pattern appears in the text. It detects the URL pattern regardless of surrounding markup. URLs wrapped in quotes within HTML will be found, though the quotes themselves won't be included in the extracted URL.
Does it extract URLs with query strings and fragments?
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Yes — the extractor captures the full URL including query parameters (?key=value&key2=value2) and fragments (#section-name). URLs like https://example.com/page?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter#pricing are extracted in their complete form, including all parameters. This is important for analytics tracking and link auditing where parameters are meaningful.
Can this handle obfuscated or shortened URLs?
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It extracts URLs as they appear in the text. Short URLs (bit.ly/abc123, t.co/xyz) are extracted as-is — the tool doesn't expand them to their destination. For URL expansion, you'd need to make HTTP requests to the short URL and follow redirects. Our extractor gives you the raw URLs from the text; URL expansion and validation are separate operations.
How many URLs can the tool process at once?
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There is no hard limit — the tool processes all URLs in the pasted text in a single pass. Documents with hundreds or thousands of URLs (like large sitemap XML files or full web page source archives) are handled. For very large inputs (thousands of URLs in megabytes of text), browser performance may slow slightly, but the results will be complete.
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Last reviewed: August 2026