URL Extractor
Extract all URLs and links from any text or HTML
How to use URL Extractor
Extract all URLs and hyperlinks from any text or HTML code. Deduplicate results. Free online URL extractor tool.
What is a URL extractor used for?
Extracting URLs from unstructured text is a common data collection and auditing task. Doing it manually is impractical at any scale — a regex-based extractor handles thousands of URLs in seconds.
- SEO auditing: Extract all outbound links from a webpage's HTML source to audit link quality, identify broken links, or analyze the site's link profile.
- Content research: Extract URLs from a report, article, or email thread to build a reference list or check which sources were cited.
- Competitive analysis: Extract all links from a competitor's page to understand their content strategy, partnerships, and external resources.
- Data pipeline building: Extract URLs from a crawl log, sitemap, or exported database to feed into a scraping, monitoring, or indexing pipeline.
- Legal and compliance: Extract all URLs referenced in a contract, terms document, or privacy policy to verify all linked resources are accessible and appropriate.
URL formats handled: HTTP and HTTPS URLs, with and without www, with paths, query parameters, and fragments. Mailto links, FTP URLs, and protocol-relative URLs (//example.com) may also be extracted depending on the pattern used.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can this tool extract URLs from a live website?
No — paste the page's source code or text content. To get a page's source: right-click → View Page Source in your browser, then Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy all. For automated extraction from multiple pages, a web scraping tool (Scrapy, Playwright) or browser extension is more appropriate.
What is the difference between absolute and relative URLs?
An absolute URL includes the full address: https://flashutils.com/en/tools/. A relative URL only includes the path: /en/tools/ or ../tools/. Relative URLs depend on the base URL to be meaningful. This extractor identifies absolute URLs — relative URLs require context to resolve to full addresses.
How do I deduplicate extracted URLs?
This tool removes exact duplicates from the results. Note that URLs differing only in trailing slash (example.com/page vs example.com/page/), case, or query parameter order may appear as different URLs — manual review or normalization may be needed for thorough deduplication.
What is a URL and what are its components?
URL structure: scheme://user:password@host:port/path?query#fragment. Example: https://www.example.com:443/blog/post?id=123#comments. Scheme (https), host (www.example.com), optional port (443 is default for HTTPS), path (/blog/post), query string (?id=123), and fragment (#comments). Most URLs in practice use scheme, host, and path only.
Can I extract emails and URLs in one pass?
This tool focuses on URLs. For email addresses, use the Email Extractor tool separately. Alternatively, if you need both, run your text through both tools — they complement each other for comprehensive contact and resource extraction from unstructured text.
URL extractor vs web scraper vs site crawler vs browser extension
A URL extractor processes pasted text — fast for one-off tasks. A web scraper (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy) fetches pages programmatically and extracts structured data — for automated, large-scale extraction. A site crawler (Screaming Frog, Sitebulb) maps all URLs within a website systematically — used for SEO audits. A browser extension (LinkGopher, URL Extractor) extracts links from the current page with one click. Use this tool for quick manual extraction; a crawler for comprehensive site analysis.