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Remove URLs

Delete web links from text, or replace them with a placeholder.

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Quick Tool Overview

Remove URLs finds web links in every form they actually appear in — full https addresses, bare www prefixes, Markdown links and angle-bracketed ones — and removes them, replaces them with a placeholder, or reduces each to just its domain, which is often the right amount of detail for a transcript.

What it does
Removes or replaces links in a text
You give it
A transcript, chat export, email or scraped page
You get back
Clean text plus a list of every URL removed
Best for
Tidying transcripts, exports and scraped content
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About the Remove URLs

Links clutter a text you are trying to read, skew a word count, and are usually the first thing that has to go when a transcript, a scraped page or a chat export is turned into something readable.

This tool finds and removes them in all the forms they actually appear in: full https addresses, bare www prefixes, domains typed without either, links wrapped in angle brackets or Markdown syntax, and addresses that run to the end of a line. Each can be deleted outright, replaced with a placeholder such as [link], or reduced to just its domain — which is often what you want in a transcript, where knowing that someone linked to a particular site still matters.

Key features of the Remove URLs

Catches links without a scheme

Bare www addresses are matched by default, with an optional pass for bare domains typed with no prefix at all.

Markdown links understood

Remove the whole construct, or keep the link text and drop only the address — which is what prose usually needs.

Domain-only mode

A long tracked URL becomes just "example.com", keeping the useful information without the query string.

Placeholder replacement

Swap each link for a marker so readers can see that something was removed rather than wondering.

Email addresses left alone

They are a separate tool, so this one never removes more than its name promises.

How to use the Remove URLs

  1. 1

    Paste the text

    A transcript, a chat export, an email or a scraped page.

  2. 2

    Choose what to remove

    Full URLs, bare domains and Markdown links can each be included or left alone.

  3. 3

    Pick a replacement

    Delete the link, swap it for a placeholder, or keep just the domain name.

  4. 4

    Review the list

    Every URL that was removed is listed, so nothing disappears without you seeing it.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Bare www addresses are matched by default, and there is a switch for bare domains such as "example.com" typed with no prefix at all — off by default, because it can match ordinary sentences ending in a country code.

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