Extract links from anything
Links hide in all sorts of places: an email full of references, the HTML source of a page, a spreadsheet column, chat logs or notes from a meeting. Paste any of that into the box and the extractor picks out every web address it can find. It recognises full addresses starting with http or https, addresses that begin with www, and links inside HTML attributes such as href. Trailing punctuation that belongs to the sentence rather than the link, such as a full stop, comma or closing bracket, is trimmed off, so the result is a clean list you can trust.
Cleaning the list
- Remove duplicates keeps the first occurrence of each address, which is handy for long documents that repeat the same source.
- Sort A–Z orders the list alphabetically so links to the same site sit together.
- Domains only reduces each address to its scheme and host, for example https://www.w3.org, which is useful for making a list of the websites a document mentions.
The cleaned list appears in a text box you can copy, and as clickable links underneath.
Opening links in bulk
Press the open button to open the next batch of links in new tabs, five, ten or twenty at a time. Browsers protect you from sites that open floods of windows, so they usually allow several tabs only in direct response to a click, and some block everything after the first. If your browser blocks the batch, the tool tells you how many tabs were stopped. You can then allow pop-ups for this site in the address bar, or simply click the links in the list one by one. Opening in batches also keeps your computer responsive, because dozens of pages loading at once can use a lot of memory.
Safety
Opened tabs are separated from this page and sent without a referrer, so the sites you open cannot control this tab. Even so, only open links you trust: extracting a link does not check whether the site behind it is safe. Nothing you paste is uploaded or stored.
Ideas for use
Checking every source in a research paper, reviewing competitors' pages, opening a list of tickets or products, or auditing the outbound links in a blog post's HTML before publishing.