When you copy a link from a search-results page, you rarely get the website's own address. Each search engine routes the click through its own tracker first, so what lands in your clipboard is a long redirect URL on the search engine's domain with the real target hidden inside it.

This tool takes those wrapped links and pulls the destination back out. It recognises the redirect formats used by Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo as well as Google AMP cache links, decodes the hidden URL (including double-encoded and Base64-wrapped forms), and even strips tracking extras such as utm_source and gclid from the result if you ask it to.

It is useful whenever you need an honest link: cleaning up SEO and backlink reports, pasting links into documents or emails without leaving a trail of trackers, or simply finding out where a suspicious-looking result link is really going. It was written with plain, browser-side JavaScript - every line is decoded locally on your device, so no link you paste is ever sent to a server.

Each line is examined on its own, and the matching unwrapping method is applied automatically. Nothing is unwrapped if a line is not a redirect link; the tracking-parameter option below is the only setting that can still touch such lines.

Google links: Google wraps results in google.com/url?q=... (and ad variants using adurl= or aclk?). The tool reads the q / url / adurl parameter and percent-decodes it.

Example: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maplebirdwindfarm.com%2Fturbines&sa=D becomes https://www.maplebirdwindfarm.com/turbines.

Bing links: Bing routes clicks through bing.com/ck/a?...&u=a1..., where the target is stored as a Base64 string with an a1 prefix. The tool strips the prefix and decodes the Base64.

Example: https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&p=7c25&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9vaWx2YWxlLWdyaWRkbGluZy5jb20vZml4P3NlY3JldD1YOQ==&ntb=1 becomes https://oilvale-griddling.com/fix?secret=X9.

Google AMP cache links: AMP cache addresses such as google.com/amp/s/example.com/page carry the destination in the path itself, prefixed by an s/ marker for https. The tool reads the target out of the path and restores the original scheme.

Example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/harborquill.net/ocean becomes https://harborquill.net/ocean.

Yahoo links: Yahoo hides the target inside the RU= segment of an r.search.yahoo.com path (ended by /RK= or /RS=). The tool extracts that segment and percent-decodes it.

Example: https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awrx/RE=1700000000/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fharborquill.net%2fchapters%2fintro/RK=2/RS=abc- becomes https://harborquill.net/chapters/intro.

DuckDuckGo links: DuckDuckGo wraps results in duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=.... The tool reads the uddg parameter and percent-decodes it.

Example: https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fskiffhollow.com%2Fpaths&rut=abc becomes https://skiffhollow.com/paths.

Already clean links: A URL with no search-engine wrapper passes through untouched, so a mixed report can be pasted in its entirety. The only exception is Yandex: its click URLs hide the target in encrypted form that cannot be decoded client-side, so those lines are also passed through unchanged.

Remove tracking parameters (optional): When ticked, click-tracking parameters - utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term, gclid, msclkid, yclid, fbclid, ref and more - are dropped from every URL in the result, including plain links that carried no redirect wrapper.

Example: https://shop.example.org/art?stock=17&utm_source=google&gclid=Px12 becomes https://shop.example.org/art?stock=17.

Bulk, copy & download: Process thousands of lines at once, then copy the result to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file. Input and output character counts update as you work.

1. Paste your links: Put one redirect link per line into the Redirect Links box, or click "Load an example" to see it in action. You can also upload a .txt file.

2. Pick an option (optional): Tick "Remove tracking parameters" if you want the cleanest possible URLs in the output.

3. Decode: Click "Decode Links". The unwrapped URLs appear in the Clean URLs box, in the same order as the input.

4. Copy or download: Use the Copy link or the Download link to take the result, or click Clear All to start over.

Click Try it on any example below to load it into the Redirect Links box. The URL on the right is exactly what Decode Links produces from it, with no options ticked.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maplebirdwindfarm.com%2Fturbines%3Frow%3D12&sa=D&source=editors

https://www.maplebirdwindfarm.com/turbines?row=12

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&p=7d31&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9vaWx2YWxlLWdyaWRkbGluZy5jb20vd3JhcHM/ZXVyZWthPXZp&ntb=1

https://oilvale-griddling.com/wraps?eureka=vi

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awrk9x2/RV=2/RE=1700000000/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fharborquill.net%2focean%3fdepth%3d5/RK=2/RS=pQ0z1-

https://harborquill.net/ocean?depth=5

https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fskiffhollow.com%2Fpaths%3Fstone%3Dyes&rut=40c2a6f977

https://skiffhollow.com/paths?stone=yes

https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fskiffhollow.com%2Fpaths%3Fstone%3Dyes&rut=40c2a6f977
https://skiffhollow.com/paths?stone=yes
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maplebirdwindfarm.com%2Fturbines%3Frow%3D12&sa=D

https://skiffhollow.com/paths?stone=yes
https://skiffhollow.com/paths?stone=yes
https://www.maplebirdwindfarm.com/turbines?row=12

https://www.google.com/amp/s/harborquill.net/ocean

https://harborquill.net/ocean

SEO and backlink reports: Exported link lists and competitor screenshots are full of google.com/url, bing.com/ck and r.search.yahoo.com links. Decoding them shows the real destinations, so you can reconcile reports against the actual sites.

Sharing honest links: A decoded link is shorter, clearer and reveals a real domain before someone clicks it - a nicer thing to send in emails, wikis, documentation and chat apps.

Skipping click trackers: Copy-pasted search links route readers through search-engine servers that log the visit. Handing over the direct URL keeps the journey between your document and the destination site.

Cleaning analytics exports: Ticking "Remove tracking parameters" collapses ?utm_source=...&gclid=... noise so the base URLs can be sorted, counted and de-duplicated accurately.

Checking a link before you click it: If a result link looks suspicious, decode it first and read the domain. If the target does not match what the page promised, you just avoided a redirect to somewhere you never wanted to go.

FAQ 1: What is a search-engine redirect link?
Answer: It is the tracking URL you copy when you right-click a search result instead of the destination site. Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo route every click through their own servers, hiding the real URL inside a branded wrapper so the click can be counted. Google AMP cache links (google.com/amp/...) hide it in the path in a similar way.

FAQ 2: Which search engines does the tool support?
Answer: Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo, plus Google AMP cache links (google.com/amp/...). Yandex links are passed through unchanged because Yandex hides the destination in encrypted form that cannot be decoded in the browser.

FAQ 3: What happens to links that are not wrapped by a search engine?
Answer: They are left exactly as they are. That means a mixed report of ordinary URLs and redirect URLs can be pasted in one go without sorting it first.

FAQ 4: Does the tool remove tracking from the URLs?
Answer: Only if you tick "Remove tracking parameters". Without it, the tool returns the exact address stored in the redirect. With it, click-ID and campaign parameters such as utm_source and gclid are also stripped from every line of the result - wrapped redirects and plain URLs alike.

FAQ 5: Can thousands of links be decoded at once?
Answer: Yes. Each line is processed separately, so the tool handles large exported reports without slowing down. For the largest files, use the .txt upload.

FAQ 6: Are my links sent to a server?
Answer: No. The decoder runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript, and nothing you paste is stored or transmitted.