URL Encoder / Decoder

How to use URL Encoder / Decoder

1. Open URL Encoder / Decoder — it runs entirely in your browser with no setup.
2. Paste or type your input into the text area, or upload a file where supported.
3. Set any options you need. The result appears in the output panel — there is no upload step and no waiting on a server.
4. Review the output instantly; large inputs are handled locally without lag.
5. Copy the result to your clipboard or download it. Your data never leaves the page.

Why use URL Encoder / Decoder?

• 100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
• Private by design — your data are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
• Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
• Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
• Part of a full developer tools suite, so related url encoder tasks are one click away.

What people use URL Encoder / Decoder for

• Encoding a value for safe inclusion in a URL query string.
• Decoding a percent-encoded URL to read what it contains.
• Fixing a link that breaks when it contains spaces or symbols.

URL Encoder / Decoder: limits and things worth knowing

• There are two different functions and choosing wrongly is the usual bug: encodeURIComponent escapes & = ? and # and is correct for a single parameter VALUE, while encodeURI leaves them intact because it is meant for a whole URL.
• A space becomes %20 in a path and may be + in a form-encoded query string. A literal plus must always be %2B, and confusing the two corrupts signatures and Base64 values.
• Non-ASCII characters are encoded as their UTF-8 bytes, so a single accented letter becomes two percent-escapes and an emoji becomes four.
• Double-encoding — encoding an already-encoded string — turns % into %25 and produces the literal escape sequences appearing in the final URL.

Is it private and secure?

Your privacy is built in. URL Encoder / Decoder runs completely on your device, so whatever you enter stays in your browser and is never transmitted, logged or stored on any server.

Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.

You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.

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