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Extract Text Between Delimiters
The Extract Text Between Delimiters tool pulls every substring that sits between a start marker and an end marker, so a single paste turns a wall of text into a clean list of just the parts that matter. Point it at brackets, quotes, commas, or any literal string, or switch to tag mode and read the inner text or HTML of every <a>, <h2>, or <li> on the page. It is the fast way to harvest URLs from href attributes, IDs from a log, or headings from a chunk of markup.
The tool is completely free and browser-based. There is no sign-up, no upload, and no limit on how much text you process, because every match is found by JavaScript running on your own machine rather than on a server.
<tag>…</tag> element with a real HTML parser.
🔒 Private: everything runs in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded.
How to extract text between two delimiters
Pick a mode, paste your text, and the matches appear instantly. Literal mode finds spans between any two strings you type; HTML tag mode parses the markup and reads each matching element.
Use literal mode for brackets, quotes, and custom markers
Literal mode treats the start and end fields as plain text, not a pattern, so there is nothing to escape: type a square bracket, a quotation mark, a comma, or a multi-character string like href=" and the tool returns each span between them. Matching is non-greedy and sequential, meaning it pairs the first start with the nearest following end, then continues past it, so overlapping or runaway captures cannot happen. An unclosed final marker is simply ignored rather than swallowing the rest of the document, which keeps results predictable on messy or truncated input.
Use HTML tag mode to read real elements, not fragile patterns
Parsing HTML with hand-written start and end strings breaks the moment an attribute, a line break, or a nested tag appears. Tag mode avoids that by feeding the text through the browser’s own DOMParser and walking the resulting nodes, so a returns every link’s inner content regardless of how the opening tag is written. Choose inner text to get the visible words with markup stripped, or inner HTML to keep the child elements intact. Because it reads the parsed tree, the result matches what a browser would actually render, not what a regular expression guesses.
Clean the output with trim, dedupe, and include-delimiter options
Raw matches are rarely the finished list. Trim whitespace removes the leading and trailing spaces that pasted source almost always carries, skip empty results drops the blank spans that appear between back-to-back markers, and remove duplicates collapses repeats so a list of two hundred links becomes the set of unique ones. The include-the-delimiters switch keeps the surrounding markers when you need the full [token] rather than the bare token. Toggle line numbers for a reference list, then copy the whole block to the clipboard in one click.
Extract text between delimiters frequently asked questions
Q1Do I need to escape special characters in the markers?
No. Literal mode matches the start and end fields as plain text, so a square bracket, a dollar sign, a quotation mark, or a parenthesis is treated exactly as typed with nothing to escape. This is the main advantage over writing a regular expression by hand, where those same characters carry special meaning and have to be backslashed before they match literally.
Q2What is the difference between literal mode and HTML tag mode?
Literal mode finds spans between any two strings you supply, which is ideal for brackets, quotes, or custom separators. HTML tag mode parses the text as real markup and reads each matching element, so it handles attributes, line breaks, and nesting that would break a hand-written pattern. Use literal for plain text and tag mode whenever the source is genuine HTML.
Q3How does the tool handle an unclosed or missing end marker?
Matching is sequential and non-greedy: each start marker is paired with the nearest end marker that follows it. If a start marker has no closing end marker after it, that span is skipped rather than capturing everything to the end of the text. This keeps results stable on truncated, malformed, or partially pasted input instead of returning one giant block.
Q4Can I extract the links or URLs from a block of HTML?
Yes. To pull URLs, use literal mode with a start of href=” and an end of the closing quote, and the tool lists every link target. To read the anchor text instead, switch to HTML tag mode, enter the tag a, and choose inner text. Both run on pasted HTML, so you can harvest URLs or link labels without opening a code editor.
Q5Is any of the text I paste sent to a server?
No. The entire extraction runs in your browser using JavaScript and the built-in HTML parser, so the text you paste never leaves your device. There is no upload, no logging, and no network request, which makes the tool safe for confidential content and fast enough to handle large pastes without waiting on a connection.
