URL Decoder

Decode and encode percent-encoded links and text

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Encoding Read + as a space Decode again if still encodedWhat to encode Spaces as +

Encoded text

Decoded text

Everything happens in your browser: your text is never sent anywhere.

How to decode a URL

Step 1

Paste the encoded link or text into the first field

Step 2

Choose another encoding or option if the text looks wrong

Step 3

Copy the decoded text or check the parts of the URL

What percent-encoding is

A link may contain only a small set of characters, so browsers and servers write everything else as percent codes: a space becomes %20, an ampersand %26, and a letter outside the Latin alphabet becomes the codes of its bytes in UTF-8, such as %C3%A9 for é. Paste an encoded link or text into the first field, and the decoded text appears as you type. “Read + as a space” turns the plus signs of forms and search queries into spaces; switch it off when a plus is a real plus. “Decode again if still encoded” also undoes codes that were encoded twice, such as %2520. Codes that are not valid text stay as they are and are listed under the result, so nothing gets lost.

Old websites and some programs encode text in older code pages instead of UTF-8. If the decoded text shows wrong letters, choose another “Encoding”, for example Windows-1252 for Western European languages, Windows-1251 or KOI8-R for Russian, Shift_JIS for Japanese or GB18030 for Chinese. For a full link, the tool also shows its parts: the protocol, the host, the path, each query parameter with its decoded value and the fragment after #. Switch to “Encode” to go the other way: encode a value for a query parameter, or only what a URL cannot contain, which keeps the slashes, the question mark and the existing codes of a link. “Swap” turns the result into the input, and everything runs in your browser.

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