How to Extract URLs From Text: Step-by-Step Guide

To extract URLs from text, paste your content into an online URL extractor and it will scan every line for http, https, and bare www addresses, then list each link on its own row. With ByteTools you can also remove duplicates, sort the results, and export them as a plain list or a comma-separated string — all without leaving your browser.

Web links get buried inside emails, chat logs, raw HTML, PDFs pasted as text, and long documents. Copying them out by hand is slow and error-prone. This guide walks through the fastest way to pull every address out cleanly.

What the Extract URLs tool does

The tool reads a block of text and identifies anything that looks like a web address. It captures full http:// and https:// links as well as bare addresses that begin with www., so a link like www.example.com is caught even without a protocol in front of it. It then outputs just the links, stripped of the surrounding words, tags, and punctuation.

Alongside the extracted list you get a live count of how many URLs were found, which is handy for quickly sanity-checking a large export before you paste it somewhere else.

Step-by-step: extracting links

1. Paste your source. Drop the raw text, log file, or HTML into the input box. It can be a few lines or thousands.
2. Turn on deduplication if the same link appears many times and you only want each address once.
3. Enable sorting to get the list in alphabetical order, which makes scanning and diffing easier.
4. Choose your output format: one URL per line for scripts and text files, or comma-separated for spreadsheets and config values.
5. Copy or download the finished list with a single click.

Which options to use when

Why running it in your browser matters

Every step happens locally in JavaScript. Your pasted text and the links found in it are never uploaded to a server. That means sensitive material — internal logs, private chat exports, unpublished URLs — stays on your device. Because there is no round trip, extraction is instant and works even when you are offline, since ByteTools is installable as a PWA.

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FAQ

Will it grab links from raw HTML source?

Yes. You can paste an entire HTML document and the tool pulls the addresses out of href attributes and inline text alike, ignoring the tags and markup around them.

Can I extract URLs from a giant log file?

Yes. Because the work is done in your browser, you can paste large blocks of text and get results immediately. Enable dedupe if the same endpoint is logged repeatedly.

What is the difference between one-per-line and comma-separated output?

One-per-line puts each URL on its own row, which is ideal for text files, scripts, or importing into most tools. Comma-separated joins everything into a single line, which fits neatly into a spreadsheet cell or a configuration array.

Does it keep query strings and anchors?

Yes. The full address is captured as written, including query parameters after a ? and fragments after a #, so you do not lose the parts of a link that carry meaning.

Related free tools

• Extract Emails — pull every email address out of a block of text.
• Strip HTML Tags — clean markup down to plain text before or after extracting.
• Remove Duplicate Lines — tidy any list, not just URLs.
• URL Encoder — safely encode links for use in query strings.

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