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URL Encoder & Decoder

Safely encode text for URLs, or decode an unreadable URL back to plain text instantly.

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URL Encoded String

What is URL Encoding?

URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format. URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits (e.g. spaces become %20).