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URL Encoder
Percent-encode text for safe use in a URL.
Quick Tool Overview
The URL Encoder percent-encodes text for use in a URL, with two clearly separated modes — one for a single parameter value and one for a complete URL. Confusing those two is the most common URL encoding mistake there is.
- What it does
- Percent-encodes text for URLs
- You give it
- A search term, parameter value or full URL
- You get back
- The correctly encoded string
- Best for
- Query parameters, API calls and link building
About the URL Encoder
A URL can only contain a limited set of characters. Everything else — spaces, ampersands, question marks, accented letters, emoji — has to be percent-encoded, which replaces each byte with a % and two hex digits.
The crucial part is which characters get encoded, and that depends on where the text is going. Encoding a whole URL must leave the slashes, colons and ampersands intact or the URL stops working. Encoding a single query parameter value must encode them, or an ampersand inside the value will split it into two parameters. Getting these the wrong way round is the most common URL encoding mistake, so this tool offers both as separate, clearly labelled modes.
Key features of the URL Encoder
Two explicit modes
Component mode encodes the structural characters; full-URL mode leaves them intact so the address still works.
Space handling choice
%20 for anywhere, or + for a form-style query string — both conventions supported.
Correct UTF-8 escapes
é becomes %C3%A9, two bytes and two escapes, which is what the standard requires.
Double-encoding warning
The tool spots existing percent escapes and warns you before turning %20 into %2520.
Character breakdown
Which characters were encoded and which were left alone, so the mode choice is verifiable.
How to use the URL Encoder
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1
Paste your text or URL
A search term, a parameter value or a complete address.
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2
Choose the mode
Component mode for a parameter value; full URL mode to keep the structural characters intact.
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3
Handle spaces
Encode as %20, or as + for a form-style query string.
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4
Copy the encoded text
Ready to paste into a URL, a link or an API call.
Frequently asked questions
Component mode encodes everything that is not unreserved, including / : ? & and =, which is right for a parameter value. Full URL mode leaves those intact so the URL keeps working. Using component mode on a whole URL breaks it.
In a path, always %20. In a query string, both work but they come from different standards: + is the older form-encoding convention, %20 is the general percent-encoding rule. %20 is safe everywhere, so it is the default here.
They become UTF-8 bytes first, then each byte is percent-encoded. That is why é becomes %C3%A9 — two bytes, two escapes — rather than a single code.
Because the % of an existing escape is itself encoded, turning %20 into %2520. Double encoding is a common bug, so the tool warns you when the input already contains percent escapes.
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