Guides
How to get links out of the places they hide — and what each method cannot do. Every code example and formula here was run against the environment named alongside it.
Getting URLs out of pages, sitemaps, documents and images.
- Extracting links
How to Extract Links from a PDF
Clickable link annotations, addresses printed in the text, and internal jumps are three different things inside a PDF. Here is how to get each one — and why a scanned PDF gives you nothing.
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How to Extract a URL from an Image or Screenshot
OCR can read an address that is visibly written in a picture. It cannot recover a link hidden behind the words "click here" — here is the difference, and how to get the best result when OCR is the right tool.
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How to Extract YouTube Description Links and Playlist URLs
Three different jobs that all get called "YouTube URL extraction" — finding links in text, pulling links out of a description, and exporting a playlist — and which ones need an API key.
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How to Extract Links from a Website or a Single Page
When to fetch one page, when to crawl, how to set a scope that finishes, and what a crawler structurally cannot find — including the pages it will always miss.
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How to Extract URLs from a Sitemap and Export Them
Paste, upload or fetch an XML sitemap and turn it into a URL list you can open in Excel — keeping page URLs separate from child sitemap files, and knowing when the list is incomplete.
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