URL Encode / Decode

URL encoding is not encryption; it only makes text safe for URLs.

About URL Encoding

URL encoding makes text safe for inclusion in URLs by escaping special characters. It is not a security measure and does not hide content.

URL encode/decode online free, no upload (FAQs)

FAQs

What characters get encoded?: Reserved characters like space, ?, &, = and non-ASCII are percent-encoded in URLs.
Is URL encoding encryption?: No. It's a representation for safe transport in URLs and HTTP.
Does this URL tool upload my data?: No. All encoding/decoding happens in your browser.

URL encoding and decoding FAQs

FAQs

What is percent-encoding?: It replaces unsafe characters with %HH bytes to make URLs safe for transport.
When to use + vs %20?: + is for application/x-www-form-urlencoded spaces; %20 is the raw percent-encoding for space.
How to encode non-ASCII?: Use UTF-8 before encoding; the tool handles this automatically.