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URL Encoder / Decoder

Easily encode your text for use in URLs or decode a URL-encoded string back to its original format. Fast, secure, and client-side.

About URL Encoding

URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding, is the process of converting characters into a format that can be safely transmitted over the Internet. URLs can only be sent using the ASCII character set. Since URLs often contain characters outside this set (like spaces, `&`, `+`), they need to be encoded.

How it Works:

Unsafe ASCII characters are replaced with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits that represent the character's ASCII value. For example, a space character is encoded as %20.

  • Encode: Converts a regular string into a URL-safe string.
  • Decode: Converts a URL-encoded string back into its original, human-readable format.