HTML Link Extractor

Parse HTML locally and export discovered links as a structured table or CSV.

HTML source

ReadyLinks are parsed from anchor href attributes; this does not request or verify destination URLs.

Source & result review

Inspect what the browser parsed and what the tool produced

DOMParser ≠ sanitizer

Ready to inspect source and result.

Review is local and detached: this panel never inserts pasted markup into the live page. A browser parser can normalize malformed HTML, but successful parsing does not make markup safe to inject. Scripts, inline event attributes and embedded browsing/plugin elements are reported as active-content signals, not executed.

Browser-local does not mean standards-complete

HTML parsing is error tolerant. Source diagnostics, sandboxed previews, and transformations do not replace full conformance, security, or production-browser testing.

Link extraction is not URL safety validation

Parsed link count and extracted href/text/target/rel are shown together. Treat unknown schemes and external destinations as data that still needs application-specific validation.

Parser and sanitizer boundary

HTML DOMParser creates a detached document and may repair or normalize markup. That is useful for inspection, but parsing alone does not sanitize untrusted HTML. Review scripts, inline event attributes, embedded content and application-specific URL/context rules before any live-DOM insertion.

Practical guide and verification

Use the tool first, then apply these checks to verify inputs, interpret the result, and hand it off without displacing the primary workflow.

Decide whether you need raw href values or resolved destinations

An HTML anchor can contain an absolute URL, a root-relative path, a document-relative path, a fragment, mailto, tel, or another scheme. A raw extractor should preserve what the markup actually says. If the job requires crawlable destinations, resolve relative links against the correct document base URL separately and keep both raw and resolved forms so the transformation remains auditable.

Account for base elements and parser behavior

A document can declare a base href that changes how relative links resolve in a browser. Malformed HTML can also be repaired by the parser before extraction, so the DOM observed after parsing may not match a simple text search. When the exact source syntax matters, compare a few anchors against the original markup and note whether the workflow is extracting parsed DOM values or literal source tokens.

Filter schemes and duplicates according to the real task

Fragments, javascript-like values, mail links, telephone links, download links, and repeated navigation links may or may not belong in a URL inventory. Do not delete categories automatically just to make the list shorter. Define the inclusion rule first, then deduplicate with a documented normalization policy if needed, because case, trailing slashes, queries, and fragments can represent different resources.

Verify exports before using them for crawling or migration

Count extracted rows, inspect a sample from the top, middle, and bottom, and confirm CSV quoting when link text or URLs contain commas or line breaks. For migration or SEO work, compare the exported destinations with the site origin and intended canonical structure. An HTML link extractor identifies markup references; it does not prove that each destination is reachable, canonical, indexable, safe, or authorized to crawl.