URL & Website Utilities
URL Extractor
Pull every URL out of a block of pasted text.
- Free to use
- No sign-up
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About this tool
Paste any block of text — an email, a document, a chat export or HTML source — and pull out every web address it contains as a clean, copy-ready list.
How to use it
- Paste your text.
- Run the extractor.
- Copy the list of addresses found.
When it helps
- Collecting the sources cited in an article or report
- Saving every address shared in a long chat or email thread
- Building a list for our Open All URLs or Broken Links tools
- Cleaning data exported from spreadsheets or CRMs
Text vs a live page
This tool works on text you paste. To collect the anchors from a live web page, with their anchor text, use our Link Extractor instead.
Limitations
Addresses must be recognisable, usually starting with http:// or https://. Broken or incomplete ones may be missed. The extractor does not visit the addresses, so it cannot tell whether they work or are safe.
A worked example
A researcher exports a long chat conversation full of shared articles. Pasting it here produces a clean list of 64 addresses, which she then opens in batches to build a reading list — instead of scrolling through hundreds of messages.
Cleaning the list
- Paste the results into a spreadsheet.
- Remove duplicates with the Remove Duplicates feature.
- Sort alphabetically to group addresses from the same site.
- Strip tracking parameters with our URL Parser if needed.
Where it is useful
- Email threads and newsletters
- Exported chats from messaging apps
- Raw HTML or Markdown source
- Logs and CSV exports
Next steps
Check that the collected pages still work with Broken Links Checker, or open them all at once with Open All URLs.
Related tools
- Open All URLs – open the list in tabs
- Link Extractor – collect addresses from a live page
- Broken Links Checker – check that pages still work
Step by step: collecting sources from a long report
- Open the report and copy all of its text (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C).
- Paste it here and run the extractor.
- Copy the list into a spreadsheet and remove duplicates.
- Check that each source still works with Broken Links Checker.
- Build a tidy reference list or reading list from the results.
What counts as an address
The extractor recognises text starting with http:// or https:// and follows it until a space, quote or bracket ends it. Addresses written without a scheme, such as example.com/page, may not be detected, so add https:// where needed.
Privacy
Text you paste is processed only to find addresses and is not kept. Avoid pasting confidential documents into any online tool if your organisation's policy forbids it.