Extract URLs from Text

Extract URLs from text in seconds: paste any messy block — an email, a chat log, a document, raw HTML, or a wall of copied content — and every link is pulled out into a clean list. It all happens in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded. This is a text extractor, not a crawler: it reads the links that are already in your text rather than visiting a website, which makes it fast, private, and instant.

Real text is messy, and that is where a good extractor earns its keep. Links sit in the middle of sentences, end with a stray comma or full stop, hide inside angle brackets, or repeat dozens of times in a log. This tool finds http and https links, ftp links, and scheme-less addresses that start with www, trims the trailing punctuation that is not part of the link, keeps balanced brackets that genuinely belong to it, and can remove duplicates so you are left with a clean, unique set.

URLs, domains, or emails

Switch between three modes. URLs gives you every full link. Domains strips each one down to its hostname, which is handy for seeing which sites a document references or for building an outreach list. Emails pulls out every email address instead. Turn on unique only to drop duplicates, sort A to Z to organise the list, and pick your separator — new line, comma, space or tab — so the output drops straight into a spreadsheet or a script.

See the shape of your links

Alongside the list you get quick stats: how many links were found, how many are unique, how many distinct domains appear, and the split between secure https and plain http. A top-domains chart shows which sites come up most often — useful for spotting the main sources in an article, the domains in a competitor’s content, or a suspicious run of look-alike addresses in a phishing email. It is a fast way to understand a block of links before you act on it.

What people use it for

Pulling links out of raw text comes up more than you would expect. Marketers and SEO specialists lift competitor URLs out of exported reports for backlink and outreach research. Developers grab links from logs, config files or API responses. Writers and researchers collect every reference from a long document or a batch of notes. Support and security teams isolate the addresses in a suspicious email to inspect them safely without clicking. Anyone migrating content lists the old links first so nothing is lost in the move. Because the same paste-and-go flow also returns domains and email addresses, one tool quietly covers the three extractions people ask for most.

How to extract URLs from text

Paste your text into the box and the links appear instantly as you type or drop content in. Pick a mode, set the options you want, then copy the whole list with one click or download it as a .txt or .csv file. There is no signup, no watermark and no limit on how much you paste. Everything is processed locally, which matters when the text is a private email thread, an internal log, or an unpublished document you would rather not send to a server.

Once you have your list, the natural next step is often to check the links still work — the Broken Link Checker takes a set of pages and flags the dead ones. To extract URLs from text is usually the first step in cleaning up, auditing, or migrating content, and the domains and emails modes cover the two jobs people reach for right after it.