URL Encoder / Decoder

URL encoding, also called percent-encoding, is how text is made safe to travel inside a URL. Characters that have a special meaning in a web address — spaces, slashes, question marks, ampersands, and equals signs — must be converted into a `%` followed by two hex digits so they are not misread as structure. Anything outside the limited set of allowed URL characters, including accented letters, emoji, and non-Latin scripts, gets the same treatment. This is what lets a query string carry arbitrary text without breaking the link.

This tool does both directions. Choose URL encode to turn any text into a percent-encoded string, or URL decode to turn a percent-encoded string back into the original text. It uses the browser's `encodeURIComponent` and `decodeURIComponent`, so the output matches exactly what your JavaScript, backend, and HTTP clients expect — including correct handling of multi-byte UTF-8 characters.

Developers, QA engineers, and anyone debugging APIs reach for a URL encoder constantly: building query parameters, decoding values pulled from logs, fixing double-encoded links, and inspecting redirect URLs. Because this one runs entirely client-side in your browser, your data is never sent to a server, logged, or stored — safe for tokens, signed URLs, and other sensitive strings.