Un Google Link

Turn redirect and tracking links into clean, direct URLs.

Un Google Link – Get the Real URL

Paste links copied from Google search, Gmail, Facebook, or Instagram and this tool strips the redirect wrapper and hands you the clean destination URL. Optionally it also removes marketing and click-tracking parameters, so the link you share is short, readable, and doesn't carry someone else's tracking IDs.

Many platforms don't link straight to the page you want. Instead they send you through their own servers first, so they can count the click and check it for spam. A Google search result may copy as:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fblog%2Fpost&ved=…

The address you actually want — https://example.com/blog/post — is hidden inside the url parameter in percent-encoded form. Facebook does the same with l.facebook.com/l.php?u=…, and Outlook rewrites every link in an email as a “Safe Link”. Pasting these into a document or chat makes them ugly, breaks link previews, and leaks click data.

How the cleaner works

For each line, the tool parses the URL, recognises known redirect hosts and paths, reads the target parameter, and decodes it. If the result is another redirect (a Google link pointing to a Facebook link, for example) it keeps unwrapping. Nothing is fetched from the network — it all happens in your browser, so private links stay private.

With Remove tracking parameters switched on, it then deletes campaign tags like utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign, ad click IDs such as gclid, fbclid and msclkid, and Google-specific values like ved and usg. Parameters that change the page content stay in place. Turn the switch off if you need to keep campaign attribution intact.

When to use it

  • Sharing a search result or news article without a mile-long URL
  • Cleaning links before adding them to documentation, spreadsheets, or bookmarks
  • SEO and marketing audits where you need the canonical landing page
  • Checking where a suspicious redirect actually leads before you click

Process dozens of links at once by pasting one per line. To read the raw encoded parts yourself, use URL Encode / Decode; for internationalized domains in the result, the Punycode Converter shows both forms.

Frequently Asked Questions

When you right-click a search result or open a link from Gmail, Google Docs, or Google Images, you often copy a google.com/url?… redirect instead of the real address. It records the click and then forwards you. The actual destination sits in the url or q parameter, percent-encoded.

Google (/url, /imgres, and AMP links), Facebook (l.facebook.com/l.php), Instagram (l.instagram.com), YouTube (/redirect), LinkedIn redirects, and Outlook Safe Links. Nested redirects are unwrapped up to five levels deep.

All utm_* campaign tags plus click identifiers such as gclid, dclid, fbclid, msclkid, yclid, igshid, mc_cid/mc_eid, _ga, and Google's ved, usg, ei, and sxsrf. Other parameters like id, page, or color are kept, so the link still opens the same content.

The tool never visits the link; it only reads the URL text. Removing the redirect hides your click from the redirecting service, but it doesn't tell you whether the destination itself is trustworthy — check the domain before opening it.