Site-search URLs and logs hide the real words behind %20 and %C3%A9. Decode the whole list into readable text in one click.
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.
running%20shoes%2Fmen
best+trail+shoesrunning shoes/men
best trail shoesTurns %20, %2F and + back into spaces and characters (handy for keywords exported from URLs and logs), or encodes lines for use in a URL.
URLs and server logs store spaces and special characters as percent codes (%20, %2F, %C3%A9) or plus signs. Decoding turns them back into readable text, which is handy for keywords pulled from site-search URLs or referrers. Encoding does the reverse, making text safe to put inside a URL.
Invalid sequences are left as they are instead of breaking the line, so a messy log export won’t fail halfway.
Yes. Decode / Encode URL Encoding 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, when decoding, since that is how forms and search boxes encode spaces.
Yes. Multi-byte UTF-8 sequences such as %C3%A9 decode to é.
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The URL 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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