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URL Encoder/Decoder

Encode and decode URLs to handle special characters and ensure proper URL formatting for web applications

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URL Encoder/Decoder

Encode and decode URLs to handle special characters and ensure proper URL formatting

URL to Encode

Encoded URL

🔗 About URL Encoding

Common Encoded Characters

Space%20
@ symbol%40
& symbol%26
= symbol%3D
? symbol%3F
# symbol%23

Safe Characters (Never Encoded)

Letters: A-Z, a-z
Numbers: 0-9
Symbols: - . _ ~
These characters are safe to use in URLs without encoding

Key Features

• Supports complete URL encoding and decoding

• Handles special characters, spaces, and international characters

• Compliant with RFC 3986 URL encoding standards

• Processes query parameters and fragments correctly

• All processing happens locally in your browser

• Essential for web development and API integration

About URL Encoder/Decoder

The URL Encoder/Decoder tool helps web developers properly encode and decode URLs to handle special characters, spaces, and symbols. Essential for web development, API integration, and ensuring URLs are properly formatted for transmission over the internet.

✨ Key Benefits

  • Encode URLs to handle special characters safely
  • Decode encoded URLs for readability
  • Ensure proper URL formatting for web applications
  • Handle international characters in URLs
  • Support for query parameters and fragments
  • Copy encoded/decoded URLs to clipboard
  • Real-time encoding and decoding
  • Works entirely in your browser

🚀 Features

  • Complete URL encoding and decoding
  • Handle special characters and symbols
  • Support for international characters (UTF-8)
  • Query parameter encoding/decoding
  • Fragment identifier handling
  • Percent-encoding compliance
  • RFC 3986 standard compliance
  • Real-time conversion
  • Copy to clipboard functionality
  • Batch URL processing

💡 Use Cases

  • Encoding URLs with special characters
  • Preparing URLs for API requests
  • Handling form data in query strings
  • Processing international domain names
  • Debugging URL-related issues
  • Converting between encoded and readable URLs
  • Preparing URLs for email or messaging
  • Web scraping and automation tasks

🎯 Fun Facts

  • URL encoding is also known as percent-encoding
  • The space character is encoded as %20 in URLs
  • URL encoding was defined in RFC 3986 in 2005
  • The @ symbol is encoded as %40 in URLs
  • Some characters like A-Z, a-z, 0-9, -, ., _, ~ are never encoded
  • URL encoding is essential for passing data in query strings
  • The maximum URL length varies by browser (2048-8192 characters)
  • URL encoding prevents conflicts with reserved URL characters

📚 Historical Context

  • URL encoding was first defined in RFC 1738 in 1994
  • The concept emerged with the World Wide Web in the early 1990s
  • Tim Berners-Lee included URL encoding in the original HTTP specification
  • RFC 2396 (1998) refined the URL encoding standards
  • RFC 3986 (2005) is the current standard for URL encoding
  • Modern web frameworks handle URL encoding automatically
  • URL encoding became crucial with the rise of dynamic web applications