URL to Homepage Extractor
Paste a list of URLs and instantly get the homepage (root) address for each one. Perfect for building outreach lists, cleaning crawl exports, or grouping links by site.
Homepages
Paste URLs on the left to see extracted homepages here.
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No account, no paywall, no usage limits.
Built for speed
Runs instantly in your browser, no server round-trips.
Privacy first
Your data never leaves your device.
What does the URL to homepage extractor do?
Why use it?
- ✓Turn long product or article URLs into short homepage links
- ✓Group a backlink list by referring site
- ✓Clean crawl exports before deduplication or analysis
- ✓Prepare prospect lists for outreach campaigns
- ✓Process hundreds of URLs at once — no manual editing
- ✓100% client-side — your links never leave your device
- ✓One-click copy all extracted homepages
How to extract homepages in bulk
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Paste your URLs into the input box — one per line.
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Toggle 'Include trailing slash' if you want a / at the end of every result.
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Watch homepage URLs appear in real time on the right.
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Copy individual results or click the copy-all button to grab everything.
Why extracting the homepage matters
Modern SEO and outreach workflows are built on lists — backlink exports, crawl data, prospect URLs, and analytics referrers. Every one of those lists is full of deep links: product pages, blog posts, category pages, and tagged archives. But when you want to see the big picture, you need the homepage, not the thousandth subdirectory.
Extracting the homepage from a URL is the fastest way to group links by site, count unique referring domains, or prepare a clean outreach list. Instead of emailing the editor of every individual blog post, you email the site once. Instead of counting every URL in a crawl as a separate entity, you collapse them to the base address and see how many sites you are really dealing with.
What gets stripped?
The tool isolates the protocol (https:// or http://) and the hostname (including any subdomain), then discards everything else:
- Paths —
/product/item-name/,/blog/2024/title/ - Query strings —
?utm_source=email,?ref=homepage - Fragments —
#reviews,#section-3 - Port numbers —
:8080,:3000 - Authentication —
user:pass@credentials embedded in the URL
The result is a clean, canonical homepage URL that is safe to share, easy to sort, and ready for the next step in your workflow.
Common use cases
- Backlink analysis — collapse a list of linking pages into a list of referring sites.
- Outreach prep — build a unique site list from a scraped prospect export.
- Competitor research — turn deep URLs into homepage links so you can identify the brands in a niche.
- Crawl cleaning — deduplicate a Screaming Frog or Sitebulb export by base URL before analysis.
- Affiliate auditing — see which unique stores or networks are sending traffic without the noise of individual product links.
Privacy and performance
Because the entire extractor runs in your browser, there is zero network latency and zero privacy risk. A list of 10,000 URLs is processed in milliseconds on a modern laptop. Nothing is logged, stored, or transmitted. You can paste sensitive internal URLs, competitor links, or client campaign data with complete confidence.
If you need to go further — clean query strings, extract just the domain name, or remove duplicate lines — the related tools at the bottom of this page can handle the next step in your workflow.
Frequently asked questions
What does this tool extract?+
It takes any URL and returns the root homepage address — the protocol plus the domain (for example https://example.com/). It strips paths, query strings, and fragments automatically.
Can I remove the trailing slash?+
Yes. Toggle the 'Include trailing slash' option off and the output will be https://example.com instead of https://example.com/.
Does it handle subdomains?+
Yes. The hostname is preserved exactly as it appears in the URL, including any subdomain like blog.example.com or shop.example.com.
Is my data uploaded anywhere?+
No. Everything happens in your browser. Your URLs are never sent to a server.
What happens if a line is not a valid URL?+
Invalid lines are returned unchanged in the output so you can spot and fix them easily.
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