https://findpicked.com/tags/url-encoder/decoder/Recent content in URL Encoder/Decoder on FindPickedHugoenFri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://findpicked.com/blog/how-to-url-encode-and-decode-a-string/Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://findpicked.com/blog/how-to-url-encode-and-decode-a-string/<p>To URL encode a string, you replace any character that is not allowed in a URL with a percent sign followed by its two-digit hexadecimal byte value — so a space becomes <code>%20</code> and <code>&amp;</code> becomes <code>%26</code>. To decode, you reverse the process: every <code>%XX</code> sequence is turned back into the original character. The fastest way to do this without writing code is to paste your text into the free <a href="https://findpicked.com/webtools/url-encoder/">URL Encoder/Decoder</a>, which runs entirely in your browser.</p>