Extract URLs from Text
Pull http(s) URLs from text with a permissive pattern and light trailing punctuation cleanup.
How it works
- 1Paste or type your text in the input field
- 2Click "Extract" — processing happens in your browser
- 3Copy the result or download as a text file
What to do next
About Extract URLs
Extract URLs performs extract urls as a focused single-page utility. Pull http(s) URLs from text with a permissive pattern and light trailing punctuation cleanup. Defaults are tuned for the common case so the first run is one click, with every option that matters exposed for the moments you need to fine-tune the result.
Architecturally, Extract URLs is a single-page client. The processing layer is standard browser APIs; the UI is a thin React shell on top. Inputs flow through the engine and the output is returned to the browser as a Blob you can save or copy. The 0 MB cap is the only hard limit and it exists to keep memory usage stable on every device.
Extract URLs runs the entire transformation inside your browser. The file is read by JavaScript running in the page, processed in-memory by standard browser APIs, and written back as a download. The browser is the runtime; the page is the interface. You can confirm what the tool does by opening the developer-tools Network tab during a run — the only requests are for the page's own static assets.
Typical users of Extract URLs include students formatting essays, developers prepping fixture data and marketers polishing product copy. The thread connecting all of them is the same: a focused text processing task that fits cleanly into a browser tab and benefits from a tool with sensible defaults and minimal setup.
The right moment to reach for Extract URLs is when you have a focused text processing job that fits inside a browser tab. Open the page, drop in the file or paste your input, choose the options that matter, and the tool returns the result.
The hard constraints are easy to remember. Maximum input: 0 MB. Multiple files per run: no — one input at a time, by design, to keep results predictable. The same controls apply on every run.
Once you have used Extract URLs, the natural next steps depend on what you are doing with the result. Common follow-ups include Extract Email Addresses, Extract Phone Numbers, and Bandwidth Calculator. These are surfaced on the page so you do not have to hunt the catalog manually.
The transformation in Extract URLs is deterministic — the same input plus the same options produces the same result every run. That predictability matters when the result has to match an upstream specification or be reproducible later.
The download is delivered as a clearly named file the moment processing completes — no email link, no "your result will be ready in 5 minutes" queue, no expiry timer. The file is generated in your browser and saved by your browser's normal download flow.
Some background on the design choices behind Extract URLs: every option you see on the page is there because a real workflow needs it, and every option that is not shown has been deliberately omitted to keep the common case fast. The bias is toward minimal-but-complete.
As a single-page tool, Extract URLs stays focused on one text processing step. Multi-step workflows are composed by chaining adjacent tools — each tool produces a standard file the next one can read directly, so a longer pipeline is just a sequence of short tab-and-tab visits.
Pro tip: Extract URLs works just as well in a private/incognito window as in a normal one, which is occasionally useful when you want zero browser-history footprint of the job. Another tip: if the tool ever feels slow, it is almost always because the browser tab is competing for CPU with another tab — pausing or closing the heavy ones gives the engine room to work.
Common gotchas worth flagging: the supported formats are listed in the upload area. The 0 MB ceiling is per-file, not per-session; you can run as many separate jobs as you like, but a single oversized input will be rejected on load.
Extract URLs is intentionally narrow in scope so the common case is fast and the result is predictable. If you ever need a variation it does not cover, browse the rest of the catalog — there is a good chance an adjacent tool already exists, and switching between tools is just a matter of opening another tab.
How it works
- 1Reach the Extract URLs page in your browser to begin.
- 2Select the text file you want to process — drag-and-drop and the file picker both work.
- 3Tweak the controls if the defaults are not quite right for your input. The options are kept short and labelled in plain language.
- 4Click to start the job. The engine (standard browser APIs) processes the input in the page; you can watch the progress indicator until it completes.
- 5Save the output when it is ready.
- 6Run additional jobs as needed. The same controls and defaults apply on every run.
Common use cases
- Encode user input safely before pasting it into HTML using Extract URLs.
- Sort a list of items alphabetically before publishing it.
- Strip messy formatting out of copy pasted from a PDF.
- Translate plain text into Markdown for a static-site post.
- Count the words in a draft to check it fits a brief.
- De-duplicate a list of email addresses pulled from a form export.
- Convert a column of names into a comma-separated list for a script.
- Generate a slug from a long article title.
- Diff two drafts of a document side by side.
FAQ
ftp or file URLs?
Only http/https schemes are matched by this pattern.
Markdown links?
URLs inside parentheses may still match; trailing ) may be trimmed heuristically.
Relative paths?
Relative URLs without a scheme are not detected.
Private?
Yes — local only.
JSON escaped URLs?
Backslash escapes may interfere; prettify JSON first if needed.
Duplicates?
Results are deduplicated while preserving first-seen order roughly.
What input formats are supported by Extract URLs?
The accepted formats are listed in the upload area on the tool itself. If your input is in a format that is not directly supported, convert it first using one of Favtoo's converter tools — every Favtoo converter outputs a file that is a clean input to the next tool in the chain.
Can I process multiple files at once with Extract URLs?
Extract URLs processes one input at a time by design — it keeps memory usage predictable on lower-end devices and makes results easier to verify. To handle a folder, run the tool once per file; the page stays loaded between runs and remembers your last-used settings, so the second run is essentially instant.
Does Extract URLs work with screen readers?
Extract URLs uses native HTML controls wherever possible, which means keyboard navigation, focus rings, and screen-reader labels work the way the platform expects. The drop zone accepts files via the keyboard-accessible file picker as well as drag-and-drop, and result downloads use standard browser download flows. If you spot an accessibility gap, Favtoo treats it as a bug worth fixing.
Can I use Extract URLs for commercial work?
Extract URLs can be used for personal and commercial work alike — there is no separate "business" licence to purchase. The output you generate is yours to use however you want, including in client deliverables, internal documents, or commercial products. Favtoo's only ask is fair, individual use; the tool is not designed to be embedded as a backend service or wrapped behind an API for resale.
Can I use Extract URLs on documents that contain personal data?
Your file is processed inside your browser by standard browser APIs. The engine reads the file's bytes from your tab's memory, computes the result, and writes the result back into the tab. You can confirm what the page does by opening developer tools and watching the Network tab during a run — the requests you see are for the tool's static assets only.
Is the source for Extract URLs available?
Extract URLs is a static page running an open-source engine in your browser, so a typical corporate firewall does not get in the way as long as it allows JavaScript to load from Favtoo. For teams that need to host it themselves on an internal network, the underlying engine (standard browser APIs) is open-source and can be packaged into a private build with the same behaviour. Reach out via the Contact page if that is something you are exploring.
Will Extract URLs keep working if my Wi-Fi drops mid-task?
Once the page is loaded, Extract URLs can complete jobs without an active internet connection — the engine is bundled with the page, so there is no per-job network call. The initial page load does require a connection (to fetch the static assets), but after that you can disconnect entirely and the tool will still work. This is a side-effect of the local-first architecture, not a deliberate "offline mode" feature.
Do I need to install anything to use Extract URLs?
No installation is needed. Extract URLs runs as a normal web page, with no browser extension, no native helper, and no separate desktop client to download. That is partly a privacy choice — extensions can request broad permissions, while a regular page is sandboxed by default — and partly a convenience one: you can use Extract URLs on any computer you have temporary access to without leaving anything installed on it.
Does Extract URLs reduce quality of the result?
Extract URLs is built to preserve quality wherever the underlying text format allows it. Operations that are mathematically lossless (e.g. structural transformations, lossless re-encoding) round-trip with no perceptible change. Operations that involve a lossy codec inevitably introduce small artefacts at the byte level, but the defaults aim at the sweet spot where output looks or sounds the same to a normal viewer or listener while still being meaningfully smaller or faster than the input.