The URL Extractor is a free online URL extractor that scans text, HTML, email and exports for every web address and link, returning a clean usable list. It recognises URL patterns and separates them from surrounding words automatically, saving you from hunting and copying each one by hand.
It is built for SEO specialists auditing outbound links, marketers gathering campaign URLs, researchers collecting sources, and developers harvesting links from raw text or markup. With options to remove duplicates, sort the results and reduce links to just their domains, you get exactly the list you need for analysis, a sitemap, a spreadsheet or a quick reference.
Everything runs locally in your web browser using JavaScript, with no upload and no server processing. The text you paste and the links extracted from it never leave your device, so even private documents and confidential link lists stay completely secure. There is no sign-up, no limit and nothing to install.
Features of URL Extractor
- Detects links starting with http and https as well as addresses that begin with www, capturing the most common forms.
- Trims trailing punctuation such as commas, full stops and brackets so each extracted URL is clean and ready to use.
- Removes duplicate links so a URL that appears many times in the source text shows up only once in your final list.
- Offers a domains-only mode that reduces each link to its hostname, ideal for seeing which sites are referenced.
- Optionally sorts the results so a long list of links or domains is ordered and far easier to scan and review.
- Shows how many links were found and how many appear in the output so you can confirm the extraction at a glance.
- Lets you upload a plain text or HTML file instead of pasting, extracting links from a saved document locally.
- Runs entirely offline in your browser with no sign-up, no upload and no limit, keeping your link data fully private.
How to use URL Extractor
- Paste the text, article, email or HTML that contains the links you want to collect into the input box.
- Alternatively, upload a plain .txt or .html file and the tool reads and scans its contents locally on your device.
- Keep remove-duplicates enabled to collapse repeated links, or turn it off to keep every occurrence found.
- Enable the domains-only option if you only want the hostnames rather than the full URLs, then optionally sort them.
- Read the statistics to see how many links were found and how many made it into the cleaned final output.
- Copy the list to your clipboard or download it as a text file to use in a spreadsheet, audit or sitemap.
Benefits of URL Extractor
- SEO specialists audit all outbound links in a page or article and check which external domains are referenced.
- Marketers gather every campaign or tracking URL from copy and exports into one clean list for review.
- Researchers collect source links from long documents and reading lists without copying each address by hand.
- Developers harvest links from raw HTML or text to build a crawl list, sitemap or quick reference quickly.
- Content teams check a draft for every link it contains before publishing to confirm none are broken or wrong.
- Anyone handling private documents benefits because extraction is local and no text or link is ever uploaded.
URLs appear in text in many shapes, from full addresses beginning with https to shorter ones that start with www, often followed by paths, query strings and fragments. The extractor matches these patterns and then trims trailing punctuation that commonly sticks to a link in prose, such as a full stop or a closing bracket, so each result is a clean, working address rather than one with a stray character on the end.
The domains-only mode is especially useful for analysis. Instead of a long list of individual page URLs, you get the set of hostnames involved, which makes it easy to see at a glance which sites a document links to, count references per domain, or build a list of partners and sources. Combined with duplicate removal and sorting, you can turn a noisy block of text into a concise, ordered overview in seconds.
All extraction happens locally in your browser, so the text you paste and the links found in it are never uploaded, logged or stored anywhere, keeping confidential material private. The tool recognises the vast majority of standard web links, though very unusual or malformed addresses may occasionally be missed or trimmed differently, so a quick scan of the output is sensible before relying on the list.