Use our free URL Encode Decode Online tool to either encode or decode a string of text. For worldwide interoperability or to map the range of characters used worldwide into the 60 or so allowed characters in a URL
What is URL Encoding/Decoding?
The process of converting specific characters in a URL with one or more character triplets made up of the percent symbol “%” and two hexadecimal digits. The first two hexadecimal digits of the triplet reprsent the substituted character’s numerical value.
We use URL encoding to convert characters into the format which can be transmitted over the internet.
Only the ASCII character set can be used to send URLs over the Internet.
The URL must be transformed into a suitable ASCII format since URLs usually contain characters that are not part of the ASCII character set.
Unsafe ASCII characters are replaced in URLs by a “%” followed by two hexadecimal digits.
Spaces are not permitted in URLs. A plus (+) sign or (%20) is typically used in place of spaces in URLs.
