URL Inspector

What it's for

Pull a URL apart so you can read and change it: scheme, host, port, path, fragment and each query parameter, decoded. It also handles app URL schemes and x-callback-url links, such as those used by Shortcuts, Drafts and other automation apps.

For example, when a long link is full of tracking parameters or nested callback URLs, paste it here to see what each part does, remove what you don’t need, and copy a clean version.

How to use it

Paste a URL. Its parts are listed with Copy buttons, and the query parameters appear as an editable list of names and values, already decoded. Change a name or value, remove a parameter or choose Add parameter, and the Rebuilt URL updates with every parameter percent-encoded correctly. A value that is itself a URL, such as x-success, can be inspected in turn. Tick Read + as a space for links from web forms.

Unwrap finds the real link inside a redirect or a mail scanner’s wrapper: Outlook Safe Links, Proofpoint URL Defense, and Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack and YouTube redirects, however many times it’s wrapped. The tool says when a link is one of these. Defang makes links unclickable for sharing in a security report (hxxps://evil[.]example[.]com), and Refang turns them back, from [.], (.), [dot] and [:] too.

Example

Paste this:

https://shop.example.com:8443/search?q=fish%20%26%20chips&sort=price#results

You get the scheme https, host shop.example.com, port 8443, path /search and fragment results, plus two parameters: q is fish & chips and sort is price. Change price to rating and the rebuilt URL updates.

Good to know

Parameters are rebuilt in the order shown, and every value is percent-encoded, so the rebuilt URL can look slightly different from the original even when it means the same thing.