URL Stripper
Paste text and strip out every http/https/ftp URL and www. link — optionally emails too — replacing each with nothing or a placeholder, then tidying the leftover spacing so it reads as clean prose. Runs entirely in your browser, no server, no sign-up.
About this tool
URL Stripper removes web links from a block of text so what's left reads as clean
prose. Paste an email, a chat log, scraped copy, or an AI-generated draft, and it deletes
every http://, https://, and ftp:// URL — and, by default, scheme-less links that
start with www. — leaving the surrounding sentences intact.
You control exactly what happens to each match:
- Replace with nothing (default): the link is deleted outright.
- Replace with a placeholder: type something like
[link]into Replace each link with and every URL becomes that token instead of vanishing. - Also remove emails: tick Also remove email addresses to strip bare addresses like
[email protected]in the same pass. - Also remove www. links: on by default; untick it to delete only true scheme URLs and
leave
www.example.comin place.
By default the tool then tidies the spacing left behind — it collapses the double
spaces a deleted URL leaves, drops a space sitting before a comma or period, removes
brackets that are now empty (Source (https://a.com/x) here → Source here), and trims
each line. Newlines and blank lines are kept, so paragraph structure survives. It even
keeps the sentence's own punctuation when a URL is glued to it: See https://x.com/y.
becomes See., not See.
Everything runs locally in your browser via WebAssembly — nothing is uploaded, and no link is ever fetched or followed. The same engine powers the command-line and chat versions.
Worked example
Input:
Read the docs at https://example.com/guide and email us at [email protected] — more at www.example.com.
With Also remove email addresses on and the replacement left blank:
Read the docs at and email us at — more at.
Leave emails off (the default) and the address stays; switch the replacement to [link]
and each URL becomes [link] instead of disappearing.
FAQ
What kinds of links does it remove?
Scheme URLs — http://, https://, and ftp:// — always. By default it also removes
scheme-less links that begin with www. (like www.example.com); untick Also remove
www. links to keep those. Bare email addresses are removed only when you tick Also
remove email addresses. A URL stops at the first whitespace, bracket, or quote, so a link
inside (…) or "…" is removed without eating the punctuation around it.
Can I replace links with a placeholder instead of deleting them?
Yes. Type anything into Replace each link with — for example [link], [url], or
*** — and every removed URL/email becomes that token. Leave the field blank (the default)
to delete each link entirely. The placeholder is inserted verbatim, so you can even use an
empty-looking marker or a full label.
Will removing a link leave weird gaps or broken punctuation?
Not with Tidy the spacing left behind on (the default). It collapses the double space a
deleted URL leaves, drops a stray space before a comma/period, removes brackets left empty
once their link is gone, and trims each line — while keeping newlines and blank lines so
paragraphs stay intact. Trailing punctuation stuck to a URL is preserved too, so
See https://x.com/y. becomes See.. Turn the option off if you want the raw gaps left
exactly where the links were.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The stripping runs entirely inside your browser via WebAssembly — the text never leaves your device, and no link is fetched or followed. The same engine also powers the command-line and chat versions.
Limits & edge cases
- Detection is text-pattern based: links are matched by shape (
scheme://…,www.…,[email protected]), not by validating that a host really resolves. A URL missing its scheme and not starting withwww.(e.g. a bareexample.com/path) is left alone, and a word that merely looks like an address could match. - A URL ends at the first delimiter: whitespace, quotes, or brackets terminate a match. A link containing a literal space (unusual, usually percent-encoded) is only removed up to that space.
- Counts are not de-duplicated: the same URL appearing twice counts as two removals.
- No rich-text/markdown awareness: it strips the raw URL text. In markdown like
[docs](https://x.com)the URL inside the parentheses is removed, but the[docs]label and brackets remain — it does not rewrite link syntax. - Tidy pass is conservative: it collapses horizontal spaces and trims lines but never merges separate lines or removes blank lines, so intentional formatting is preserved.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool url-stripper "Read the docs at https://example.com/guide and email us at [email protected] — more at www.example.com."New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/url-stripper/?input=Read%20the%20docs%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fguide%20and%20email%20us%20at%20hi%40example.com%20%E2%80%94%20more%20at%20www.example.com.&remove_emails=true&remove_www=true&replacement=%5Blink%5D&collapse_whitespace=trueMachine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.