=filter(Sheet1!A1:A,Sheet1!A1:A"") Step 2: Publish the Tab “Sheet1” If there are blank cells between the hyperlinks, then instead of the above simple formula, use the below Filter formula. In “Sheet2” in cell A1 use the below formula to copy the contents (hyperlinks) available in “Sheet1” column A. Step 1: Copy Contents (Hyperlinks) to “Sheet2” I am going to extract the URLs in “Sheet2” (tab name). The above hyperlinks are in “Sheet1” (tab name) column A. Step-By-Step Instructions to Separate URLs from Hyperlink With the following workaround, that even novice Google Sheets users can follow, we can extract URLs from any type of (the said three above) hyperlinks. There is one formula, but that will only work with the hyperlinks in cell A2 and A3, that is inserted via the Hyperlink function. How to Extract URLs in Google Sheets from HyperlinksĪctually, there is no built-in function in Google Sheets that can extract URLs from a hyperlink in a cell. How to extract the URLs in Google Sheets without any script or custom functions? Please follow the step-by-step instructions below. I mean you won’t see any formula in the formula bar (this started happening after the recent Hyperlink update).įrom these three types of hyperlinks in cells, you can extract or separate the URLs in Google Sheets that without using any Apps Script. If you use the menu Insert > Insert link to insert a hyperlink in cell A4, that link would behave just like the link in cell A1. But on the other two cells, you will see the hyperlink formula. So when you go to cell A1, you won’t see the URL on your Google Sheets formula bar.
I mean I have used the Hyperlink function to link a label with URL. In the above example, the cell A1 contains the link with the label copied from this blog. I have extracted the URLs without any App Scripts in Google Sheets! The below screenshot (GIF) shows the URLs that we want to extract in the range A1 :A.
But using this method it’s not possible to extract multiple URLs from a single cell in Google Sheets. This method works even after the latest Google Sheets update that brought multiple Hyperlink feature. It doesn’t matter whether the URL is linked to a label in a cell using the Hyperlink function, Insert menu “Insert link”, or copied from any website or blog page. Without using Google Apps Script, you can extract URLs in Google Sheets.
Or update_when_older() method: from urlextract import URLExtract extractor = URLExtract () extractor. If you want to have up to date list of TLDs you can use update(): from urlextract import URLExtract extractor = URLExtract () extractor. has_urls ( example_text ): print ( "Given text contains some URL" ) Let's have URL as an example." if extractor. Or if you want to just check if there is at least one URL you can do: from urlextract import URLExtract extractor = URLExtract () example_text = "Text with URLs. gen_urls ( example_text ): print ( url ) # prints: Let's have URL as an example." for url in extractor. Or you can get generator over URLs in text by: from urlextract import URLExtract extractor = URLExtract () example_text = "Text with URLs. Let's have URL as an example." ) print ( urls ) # prints: You can look at command line program at the end of urlextract.py.īut everything you need to know is this: from urlextract import URLExtract extractor = URLExtract () urls = extractor.