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URL Decode

Decode percent-encoded URLs and query strings back to readable text.

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Decoding percent-encoded URLs

Percent-encoding replaces unsafe or reserved characters with a % followed by their hex byte value — for example a space becomes %20. This tool reverses that, turning a percent-encoded string back into readable text via decodeURIComponent.

FAQ

Why do I get a "malformed % sequence" error?

The input contains a % that isn't followed by two valid hex digits, or a broken multi-byte UTF-8 sequence — often the result of copying a URL that got truncated or double-encoded incorrectly.

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