Extract URLs from Text
Extract all web URLs, email links, and phone numbers from raw text or HTML instantly. Deduplicate links, clean punctuation, and copy clean lists. 100% private.
Real-Time Link Metrics
High-Precision Link Extraction & URL Scraping
How our smart punctuation trimming engine separates authentic web addresses from natural sentence prose.
Smart Trailing Punctuation Sanitization
When scanning human prose or messy documentation, naive regular expressions frequently capture sentence-ending punctuation like periods (https://example.com.), commas, or closing parentheses. Our engine applies an intelligent boundary-trimming heuristic that safely strips sentence punctuation while preserving balanced parentheses for Wikipedia entries like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game).
Multi-Protocol Support (Web, Mail, Tel)
In addition to standard web protocols (http://, https://, and ftp://), the workstation identifies explicit email contacts (both mailto: URIs and naked RFC 5322 addresses) and telephone URIs (tel:). Filter pills allow you to isolate exact endpoint types in one click.
Supported Link Protocols & Schemes
| Category | Protocols / Schemes | Example Match | Common Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web URLs | http://, https://, ftp://, ftps://, sftp://, ws://, wss:// | https://octalone.com/tools | Websites, APIs, file transfers, WebSockets, and IPv6 servers |
| Email Links | mailto:, RFC 5322 | [email protected] | Customer support leads, author contacts, and mailing lists |
| Phone Links | tel: | tel:+18005550199 | Direct call links, hotline numbers, and click-to-dial endpoints |
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Frequently Asked Questions
The tool scans your text using standard URI protocol patterns (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, mailto, tel). When links appear inside conversational sentences (e.g., 'visit https://octalone.com.'), naive scrapers often capture the trailing period or parenthesis into the link. Our parser uses an intelligent boundary trimming heuristic that safely strips sentence-ending periods, commas, colons, and unbalanced punctuation while preserving balanced parentheses found in valid Wikipedia links (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)).
The workstation extracts three core categories of links: standard Web URLs (http://, https://, ftp://, ftps://, sftp://, ws://, and wss:// with custom ports, query parameters, IPv4/IPv6 addresses, and hashes), Email contacts (both mailto: links and naked RFC 5322 email addresses), and Phone numbers (tel: links with international country codes and formats). You can use the filter toolbar to view all links combined or isolate specific categories.
When 'Remove Duplicates' is enabled, the extractor retains only the first occurrence of each unique link in document appearance order. Unlike emails which are case-insensitive, URL paths can be case-sensitive per RFC 3986 (e.g., /Path vs /path), so web URL casing is accurately preserved during deduplication.
Yes! The workstation handles up to 250,000 characters (approx. 40,000 words or 1 MB of raw text) smoothly in client-side memory with debounced scanning. You can paste raw HTML markup from web scrapers, Markdown documents, CSV dumps, or Apache/Nginx web server access logs and extract all embedded endpoints in milliseconds.
Yes, 100%! All text scanning, regex matching, punctuation cleaning, and file generation execute purely inside your local browser memory using native JavaScript Web APIs. Zero text drafts, extracted URLs, email contacts, or phone numbers are ever transmitted over the network or saved to external servers. The tool functions completely offline.