URL Encoder & Decoder
Percent-encode text for query strings, or decode an encoded URL back to readable text.
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Result
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Component encoding escapes / ? & = # too. Full URL encoding leaves them alone.
What is URL encoding?
URL encoding, also called percent-encoding, writes a character a URL cannot hold as % and the hex of its UTF-8 bytes. A space becomes %20 and é becomes %C3%A9. Letters, digits and - _ . ~ are never encoded.
Example
café menu
caf%C3%A9%20menu