URL Encoder & Decoder

URLs may only contain a small set of characters, so everything else — spaces, accented letters, Hindi, emoji and characters with special meanings like & and = — is percent-encoded as %XX bytes of UTF-8. This tool encodes and decodes text in the three ways the web actually uses: as a single URL component, as a whole URL, and as HTML form data. When the text is a full URL it also splits it into scheme, host, port, path, fragment and a table of query parameters, including repeated keys, so a long tracking or redirect link becomes readable.

1. Choose Encode or Decode.
2. Choose the rules: Component for one value, Full URL for a complete address, or Form for form-encoded bodies where spaces are +.
3. Paste your text. The result updates as you type, and errors point to the broken escape sequence.
4. If you pasted a URL, read its parts and query parameters below the result.
5. Use the swap button to feed the result back in the other direction, and copy what you need.

• Encoding a whole URL with Component rules breaks it, because / ? & and = get encoded too. Use Full URL for complete addresses and Component for values you insert into one.
• Text that is already encoded will be encoded again (%20 becomes %2520). Decode first if you’re unsure.
• The parts view needs a scheme such as https://; a bare “example.com/path” is not a complete URL.
• Decoding shows text only. Percent-encoded bytes that aren’t valid UTF-8 are reported rather than guessed at.
• Encoding, decoding and URL parsing use your browser’s built-in functions. Nothing you paste is sent or saved. URLs can carry tokens and personal data in their query strings; the parts view hides any password embedded in the URL.

encodeURI assumes you’re giving it a whole URL and leaves characters that structure a URL alone. encodeURIComponent assumes one piece — a query value or a path segment — and encodes those characters too, so a value containing & or = can’t break the URL.

In a path or with encodeURIComponent, %20. In an HTML form body or a query string built by a form, + is also accepted as a space. Choose Form mode to decode + as a space.

Each character is converted to its UTF-8 bytes first, and Devanagari characters take three bytes each — so one letter becomes something like %E0%A4%95.

Yes for the parameters you can see: paste it and read the query table. A short link that redirects elsewhere only reveals its destination when opened, which this tool doesn’t do.