URL Encode and Decode Online

Percent-encoding is a method of representing special characters in a URL using the % sign followed by two hexadecimal digits. It is defined by the RFC 3986 standard.

Why URL Encoding Is Needed

• transmitting non-ASCII characters (e.g. Cyrillic, Chinese) in URLs;
• escaping special characters (&, =, ?, #) in query parameters;
• encoding form data before submission (application/x-www-form-urlencoded);
• building correct API requests with query parameters.

rawurlencode vs urlencode

This tool uses rawurlencode (RFC 3986), which encodes spaces as %20. The urlencode function encodes spaces as + and is intended for form data only.