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URL Decoder

Decode percent-escaped URL components back to readable Unicode text.

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About the URL Decoder

The URL Decoder interprets valid percent-escaped UTF-8 sequences and can optionally treat plus signs as spaces, as used by HTML form query strings.

How to use the URL Decoder

  1. Paste an encoded URL component.
  2. Choose whether plus represents a space.
  3. Decode and inspect malformed-percent errors if present.

Practical tips

  • Keep plus signs literal when decoding a path rather than form data.
  • Decode only as many layers as the source was encoded.
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