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Extract URLs
Extract URLs is part of Toolspire and is ready as soon as this page loads. Only URLs that start with http:// or https:// are kept. “example.com” without a scheme is left behind, because it is also how people write sentences.
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What you can do here
Scheme required
Bare domains are too easy to confuse with ordinary words.
Sentence punctuation comes off
The period in “a.” is not part of the URL.
Unique list
Repeats are counted and collapsed.
The sequence
How to use the Extract URLs
- 1
Paste the notes or the export
The scan reads the whole box.
- 2
Check the sample loses its period
The result should be https://example.com/a without a dot at the end.
- 3
Add http:// if a bare domain was skipped
That skip is deliberate.
Worth knowing
- Extract URLs on Toolspire: A link must start with http:// or https://.
- A trailing period or comma is removed, so a sentence does not become part of the path.
- The sample’s https://example.com/a is listed once.
- “example.com” with no scheme is not a match.
The scheme is what makes it a link
http and https are required so the extractor does not grab every dotted word. The match runs to the next whitespace, then drops a trailing period, comma or closing parenthesis that a sentence stuck on. The same URL twice becomes one line. There is no fetch, so a private address in the paste stays in the tab and is not requested.
FAQ
Questions about Extract URLs
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