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URL encode and decode

Percent-encode text for a URL component or decode percent escapes back to text. Handle spaces, Unicode and reserved characters.

Free · No sign-up · Files stay on your device

Features

  • Encode a path or query component using percent escapes.
  • Decode valid percent-encoded UTF-8 text.
  • Copy the result for use in a URL value.

How to use this tool

  1. Paste the text or encoded component.
  2. Choose Encode or Decode.
  3. Run the tool and copy the converted result.

Good to know

This tool is free without sign-up, with unlimited processing and exports within the displayed input limits.

  • Encoding an entire URL also encodes separators such as / and :. Form-style + characters are not automatically decoded to spaces.

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