Link Extractor
Extract all links from HTML or text — filter by type and export as CSV.
What Is Link Extraction?
Link extraction is the process of identifying and collecting all URLs from a web page's HTML source code or plain text. This includes hyperlinks (<a href> tags), email addresses, and plain-text URLs. SEO professionals, web developers, and content auditors use link extraction to analyze a page's link profile, find broken links, identify external dependencies, and audit internal linking structures.
Internal vs External Links
Internal links connect pages within your own website, helping users navigate and distributing SEO value (link equity) across your site. External links point to other websites, providing sources and references. A healthy link profile includes both. Google recommends a natural balance — link to authoritative external sources when relevant and maintain a strong internal linking structure for discoverability.
Link Auditing
Regular link audits help identify broken links (404s), redirect chains, orphan pages (pages with no internal links), and over-optimized anchor text. Broken links hurt user experience and waste crawl budget. Redirect chains (A→B→C→D) slow down page loads and dilute link equity. Fix these issues to maintain a healthy site architecture and optimal SEO performance.
Getting Page Source HTML
To extract links, you need the page's HTML source. Right-click any page and select "View Page Source" or press Ctrl+U. For JavaScript-rendered content, use browser DevTools (Elements tab) to get the rendered HTML. For automated extraction at scale, tools like Screaming Frog, Ahrefs Site Audit, or custom scripts with Python's BeautifulSoup library are more efficient.
Anchor Text and SEO
Anchor text — the clickable text of a hyperlink — helps search engines understand what the linked page is about. Descriptive anchor text ("complete guide to SEO") is better than generic text ("click here"). However, over-optimizing anchor text (using exact-match keywords too frequently) can trigger Google's Penguin penalty. Use natural, descriptive, varied anchor text for best results.