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Extract Links From HTML

Details

How to use Extract Links From HTML

What the tool does, how to run it, and what to expect from the result.

How to extract links from HTML

To extract links, paste your HTML into the tool and it parses the markup for URLs right away. Extract Links From HTML surfaces anchor href values along with image and media source URLs, then lets you export the full list as text or JSON.

Because everything happens in your browser, you can paste markup from a page source, a CMS field, or an exported template without sending it anywhere. The structured JSON output is handy when you want to feed the URL list into another script or spreadsheet.

  • Paste HTML markup
  • Parses anchors, images, and media URLs
  • Export as plain text or JSON
  • Runs fully in the browser

Why it helps with content audits

A lot of HTML cleanup work comes down to taking a link inventory. Extract Links From HTML turns pasted markup into a clean URL list without writing a parser script or running a crawler, which speeds up content QA, broken-link checks, and migration prep.

Editors, SEOs, and developers can use it to quickly see every link and asset a block of HTML references. Exporting to JSON makes it easy to compare, dedupe, or validate the URLs in a later step.

  • Build a fast link inventory
  • Spot-check links before publishing
  • Prep URLs for migration or audits
  • Export for further processing
Tips

Getting a better result out of Extract Links From HTML

Specific settings and thresholds, not general advice.

  • Three selectors are queried and nothing else: a[href], img[src], and video[src], audio[src], source[src]. If a URL is not in one of those attributes, it will not appear in the list.
  • Not collected: iframe src, script src, link href (stylesheets and canonical), area href, poster, form action, and CSS url() values. An <img> carrying only a srcset and no src is skipped entirely, which is common in lazy-loaded and responsive markup, so a gallery page can return zero images.
  • URLs are returned exactly as authored. A relative /about stays /about, no base URL is applied, and <base href> is ignored, so you cannot separate internal from external links by hostname without prefixing the origin yourself.
  • The dedupe key is type plus text plus URL plus rel plus target, not the URL alone. The same href with two different anchor texts appears as two rows, which is useful for finding inconsistent anchor text but means the row count is not a count of unique URLs.
  • An anchor that wraps only an image produces two rows: an anchor whose text falls back to (link), and a separate image row. An <img> with no alt shows (image), which makes the JSON export a fast way to find images missing alt text.
Limits

What Extract Links From HTML does not do

The honest boundary, so you do not lose time finding it yourself.

  • No crawling. It reads only the markup you paste and never follows a link.
  • No status checks. Broken links, redirects, and 404s look identical to working links here.
  • Relative URLs are not resolved to absolute, and <base href> is not honoured.
  • rel and target are captured in the JSON export, but the copied text list shows rel only.
Reference

Terms used on this page

Short, plain-language definitions for the formats and settings above.

At a glance

Who Extract Links From HTML is for

A quick way to understand who this helps, what it solves, and where it connects next.

Best fit

SEO teams, content QA operators, marketers, and developers auditing pasted HTML quickly.

Ideal for

Pulling URLs out of HTML without manually scanning long snippets or copied page fragments.

FAQ

Common questions

Short answers for the questions people usually have before trying a utility like this.

Does it only extract anchor tags?

No. Extract Links From HTML also surfaces image and media source URLs in addition to anchor links.

Can I export the result as JSON?

Yes. The extracted list is available as plain text and as structured JSON.

Does this upload my HTML anywhere?

No. Parsing happens entirely in your browser, so the markup you paste is never uploaded.

Is Extract Links From HTML free?

Yes. It is free to use, with no account and no upload required.

Can it handle a full page's source code?

Yes. You can paste large blocks of HTML, and it will extract the anchor, image, and media URLs it finds.

Does it extract iframe or stylesheet URLs?

No. The extractor queries a[href], img[src], and the src attribute on video, audio, and source elements. An <iframe src>, a <link rel="stylesheet" href>, and a <script src> are all outside that set and will not show up, even though they are URLs in your markup.

Why are some of my images missing from the list?

The selector is img[src], so an <img> that only carries srcset, or a lazy-loaded image that stores its real URL in data-src and leaves src empty, is not matched. That pattern is everywhere in modern responsive markup, so a page can genuinely have images and still return no image rows.

Are relative links turned into absolute URLs?

No. Each URL is copied out of the attribute exactly as written, so /pricing stays /pricing and ../img/a.png stays ../img/a.png. There is no page origin to resolve against, since the tool only ever sees the markup you pasted, and any <base href> in the source is ignored.

Why does the same URL appear twice?

Deduplication keys on the whole row, including the link text, rel, and target, not on the URL alone. Two anchors pointing at /about with different anchor text are treated as different rows. That is often what you want when auditing anchor text, and it does mean you should not read the row count as a unique-URL count.

Can it tell me which links are broken?

No. Checking a link means requesting it, and the tool makes no network requests at all. Everything here is derived from the markup in the box, so a URL that 404s is indistinguishable from one that works. Export the JSON and run the list through a link checker if you need status codes.

Is the HTML uploaded anywhere?

No. The markup is parsed in your browser and the extracted list is built locally, which is also why no link can be verified.

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