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URL Extractor

Pull every web address out of a block of text.

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Quick Tool Overview

The URL Extractor pulls every web address out of plain text, in all the forms people write them, and hands back a clean list. Trailing sentence punctuation is stripped correctly, tracking parameters can be removed, and results can be grouped by domain.

What it does
Extracts URLs from plain text
You give it
An email, document, transcript or export
You get back
A de-duplicated URL list, optionally cleaned
Best for
Auditing what a document links to
Text Tools Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the URL Extractor

URLs turn up in text in every form people write them: with https, with just www, as a bare domain, wrapped in angle brackets, inside Markdown, or trailing a full stop that may or may not be part of the address.

This finds all of them and hands back a clean list. Trailing punctuation is stripped correctly — a full stop at the end of a sentence is not part of the URL, but one inside the path is. Duplicates can be removed, tracking parameters stripped, and results grouped by domain, which turns a wall of links into an immediately readable summary of where a document actually points.

Key features of the URL Extractor

Trailing punctuation handled

A full stop ending a sentence is dropped; one inside a path is kept — the distinction most tools miss.

Tracking parameters stripped

utm tags, fbclid and gclid removed, which is usually most of the length of a shared link.

Grouped by domain

A wall of links becomes a readable summary of where a document points and how often.

Bare domains optional

Off by default, because that pattern also matches ordinary sentences ending in a country code.

Markdown links handled

The address is extracted from the link syntax rather than mangled by it.

How to use the URL Extractor

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    An email, a document, a transcript or a page source.

  2. 2

    Set what counts as a URL

    Full addresses, bare www prefixes, and optionally bare domains with no prefix at all.

  3. 3

    Clean the results

    Remove duplicates and strip tracking parameters such as utm_source.

  4. 4

    Group by domain

    See at a glance which sites a document actually links to and how often.

Frequently asked questions

Trailing punctuation is stripped, because a full stop ending a sentence is not part of the address. A full stop inside the path is kept, since there it genuinely is.

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