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What is URL Encoder ?

URL specification RFC 1738 only allow small set of characters that can be used in a URL. Those characters are:

• A - Z (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)
• a - z (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
• 0 - 9 (0123456789)
• $
• -
• _
• .
• +
• !
• *
• '
• (
• )

In order to use other characters (other than above) in URL we need to encode them to a % and a two digit hexadecimal value. Our Online Url Decoder service allow you to decode URL which are already encoded.

How URL Decoder Works ?

URL Decoder works by replacing a % and two digit hexadecimal value to ASCII characters . Following are some examples:

• %2B (converted to) +
• %26 (converted to) &
• %24 (converted to) $
• %40 (converted to) @
• %3A (converted to) :
• %2C (converted to) ,
• %3B (converted to) ;
• %3D (converted to) =
• %3F (converted to) ?

URL Decoding Example

Before :

https%3A%2F%2Fpasteio.com%2Furl-decoder

After :

https://pasteio.com/url-decoder