Crawler exports are full of & and ’. Decode them back into readable text in one click — or encode text safely for HTML.
The example below is already loaded, so you can see exactly what you get. Replace it with your own list and the result updates as you type.
Got a bigger job? The full Notepad runs the same engine on lists of any size — chain this with dedupe, sort and filter, undo any step, and save the whole routine as a recipe for next time.
Tom & Jerry – "classic"Tom & Jerry – "classic"Turns &, ", – and similar codes back into the characters they stand for — or the reverse, for pasting text into HTML safely.
Text scraped from web pages is full of HTML entities: & for &, " for ", – for –. Decoding turns them back into the characters they stand for, including numbered entities. Encoding does the reverse, escaping &, <, >, " and ' so text can go safely into HTML or XML.
Decoding is the one you usually need for keyword and title lists pulled from crawlers; encoding is for preparing text to paste into templates or code.
Yes. Decode / Encode HTML Entities runs entirely in your browser, on this page and in the full Notepad, with no sign-up, no limits, and nothing sent to a server.
Yes, both decimal (') and hexadecimal (') forms are decoded.
No. Lines without entities come out unchanged.
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The HTML Entity Decoder & Encoder is one of the free tools inside Seowolf’s Notepad. Paste a list once, then dedupe, filter, sort, compare and format it in seconds — every step undoable, nothing uploaded, no account.
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