URL Parser

URL Parser takes a web address and splits it into the parts a browser sees. You get the protocol, the full host including any port, the hostname on its own, the path, the raw query string, the fragment and the origin. Below that, every query parameter is listed in a table with its value already percent-decoded.

This is the fastest way to understand a long tracking link. Campaign URLs routinely carry a dozen parameters strung together, and reading them by eye is error-prone. Seeing them as rows makes it obvious which values are set, which are empty and which have been encoded twice.

Parsing uses the browser's own URL implementation, which is the same code that resolves links when you click them. That means the breakdown matches exactly how a browser would interpret the address, including its handling of default ports and internationalised domain names.

• Protocol, host, hostname, port, path, search, hash and origin
• Query parameters listed and decoded individually
• Handles repeated parameter names
• Assumes https when the protocol is missing
• Clear error for addresses that cannot be parsed
• Copy the whole breakdown as text

The url parser is used by writers, developers, students, marketers and anyone else who needs the job done once without installing software. Common cases include:

• Auditing UTM parameters on a campaign link
• Checking which port and path an API call is really using
• Debugging a redirect chain
• Extracting a single parameter value from a long URL
• Teaching how the parts of a web address fit together