Encode/Decode URLs

Encode or decode URLs for safe web transmission.

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The Methodology

encodeURIComponent() | decodeURIComponent()

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How it works

URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Characters that are not allowed in a URL are replaced with one or more character triplets consisting of the percent character % followed by two hexadecimal digits.