HTML Link Extractor
Extract every link from any HTML page: anchors, images, iframes, scripts, stylesheets, and meta canonical/og:url. Paste HTML or fetch a URL, get a categorised table with internal vs external counts and CSV export.
Interactive tool
Input
Used to resolve relative URLs and split internal vs external.
Links
Paste HTML or fetch a URL to see all embedded links.
What is the HTML Link Extractor?
A free tool that surfaces every URL embedded in an HTML document. Anchor tags, image sources, iframe URLs, stylesheets, script sources, video and audio sources: all categorised by destination (internal vs external) and by tag type. Paste HTML directly, or fetch any URL through our SSRF-safe backend.
How to Use the HTML Link Extractor
- 1Pick an input mode: paste HTML, fetch a URL, or paste plain text containing URLs
- 2Set the base URL so relative paths can be resolved into absolute links
- 3Toggle deduplication if you want each unique (kind + URL) listed once
- 4Review the categorised counts (internal, external, anchor, mailto, tel, ...)
- 5Filter by kind or category, then copy or download the result as CSV
Key features
Every link kind
Anchor <a>, image <img>, iframe, stylesheet, script src, video, audio, source, plus <link rel> tags (canonical, alternate, ...).
Internal vs external detection
Resolves relative URLs against the base URL, then compares hostnames to classify each link as internal or external.
Three input modes
Paste HTML, paste plain text containing URLs, or fetch any URL via our SSRF-safe backend (rate-limited, size-capped).
Per-row attributes
Anchor text, rel, target, kind, and raw href are surfaced in the table and exported to CSV.
Dedup option
Optional deduplication by (kind + resolved URL) for cleaner CSV exports.
CSV export
Download all extracted links in a flat CSV that imports cleanly into Excel, Google Sheets, or any data tool.
Why extract links from HTML?
Crawling, auditing, and content QA all start with the same question: what does this page link to? Pulling links out of static HTML or a freshly-fetched page lets you sanity-check internal navigation, find broken external references before a search engine does, or feed a redirect map back into your CMS.
Common use cases
- Auditing a competitor landing page for outbound link partners
- Generating a redirect-map seed list from an archived HTML snapshot
- Confirming every canonical / hreflang link tag is well-formed before deploy
- Counting internal vs external links to assess link equity flow
- Pulling all image sources from a page to build a CDN migration list
How relative URLs are resolved
- The tool first looks for a <base href="..."> declaration inside the document. If present, that wins.
- Otherwise the base URL you supplied is used.
- Without either, the tool falls back to a scheme-only classification (anything starting with http(s):// is "external", everything else "internal").
SSRF safety
When you choose Fetch URL mode, the request goes through our hardened backend. It blocks non-public addresses, excessive redirects, content-type mismatches, and oversize responses. No URLs are logged.
Tips & best practices
Always pass a base URL
Without one, relative URLs are reported as-is and the internal/external split degrades to scheme-checking.
Pair with the URL Normalizer
Copy the URL column into the URL Normalizer to dedupe, dedupe-and-strip-utm, or canonicalise before you act on the list.
CSV imports cleanly into a spreadsheet
Use the CSV export when you want pivot tables / filters. The HTML output is better for at-a-glance browsing.
Privacy & security
Paste-HTML mode runs entirely in your browser. Fetch-URL mode routes through our SSRF-safe backend with rate limiting. URLs are not logged.
Related tools
- Robots.txt Generator
Build a robots.txt file with a per-rule editor: pick user-agents, Allow/Disallow patterns, crawl-delay, sitemaps, and the optional host directive. Three starter presets and live validation.
SEO Tools
- XML Sitemap Generator
Build a sitemaps.org-conformant XML sitemap from a URL list. Auto-paginates at 50,000 URLs or 45 MB, generates a wrapping sitemap-index, downloads as a single file or a multi-file ZIP.
SEO Tools
- HTML Meta and Heading Extractor
Extract every meta, title, link, canonical, and hreflang tag from an HTML page, or analyze the H1-H6 heading outline with accessibility flags. Paste HTML or fetch any URL.
SEO Tools
- XML Sitemap Validator
Validate XML sitemaps against the sitemaps.org schema. Checks URL count, file size, lastmod ISO 8601, changefreq enum, and priority range. Recursively validates sitemap-index files.
SEO Tools
- Text Statistics Analyzer
Analyze text with keyword density, readability scores, sentence metrics, and reading time
Text Tools
- Text Deduplicator
Remove duplicate lines or words from text with options for case sensitivity, ordering, and trimming
Text Tools
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tags does the extractor look at?
Anchor <a>, image <img>, iframe, script src, video, audio, source, plus <link rel="..."> elements (canonical, alternate, stylesheet, preload, ...).
How is internal vs external decided?
Each URL is resolved against the base URL you provide, then the hostnames are compared. Same hostname → internal, different → external.
Is the URL fetch safe?
Yes. Fetch mode routes through our SSRF-safe backend, which blocks non-public addresses, content-type mismatches, and oversize responses. Per-IP rate limiting is enforced. No URLs are logged.
Will it follow links recursively?
No. The HTML Link Extractor only inspects the single document you give it. A full-site crawl needs the (deferred) Broken Link Checker.
Does it run JavaScript on the page?
No. Only the static HTML response is parsed: links injected by JavaScript at runtime are invisible. Render the page in a browser first if you need post-JS link discovery.