Extracting URLs from Hyperlinks

Doesn't work. I get #NAME error
Function GetURL(rng As Range) As String
On Error Resume Next
GetURL = rng.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End Function

GetURL(E30)

thanks for the code. You saved me a lot of time.

I used the GetURL to extract URL from cells in Excel for Mac (v16) and works like charm.

Hi,
It is not working

User defined function Get URL does not work with O-365 Excel.

Thanks for the function GetURL! When using it, I discovered that it wouldn't return the complete URL if you had a query in it like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=peanutbutter&rlz=1C1CHBD_enNL893NL893&oq=peanutbutter&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i10j0i10j46i10j0j46i10l2.3348j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

This would only return: https://www.google.com/search?

Therefore I mimicked your function to be able to get the query as well:
Function GetSubURL(rng As Range) As String
On Error Resume Next
GetSubURL = rng.Hyperlinks(1).SubAddress
End Function

Thanks Peter, that works for the server! Still truncated for local hard drive links.

Retrieve the subaddress of the hyperlink to build the full address when the URL includes a #

With rng.Hyperlinks(1)
GetURL = .Address
if .SubAddress >"" then GetURL=GetURL & "#" & .SubAddress
End With

Unfortunately this results in a truncated address, "..\..\don.MAIN\Documents\Other Folder(s)\MyFile.xlsx" instead of c:\users\don.main\etc. The same problem occurs with files on our server, which recently changed names (as did my don.main), although I was able to use VBA to find and replace the still visible \don.main\, I wasn't able to do so with the server links, whose name was truncated. I cannot use the "..\..\"part to search and replace because then I would destroy the links to files/folders on my computer. How do I get the FULL address?
Windows 10 Professional, Excel 2013.

Craig from 2019-11-06: excellent tip. I spent too long going nowhere with the VBA sub method. Thanks a lot!!!

I found an easy way to convert hyperlinked text into simple URLS:

1) select and copy cells with hyperlinked text
2) open Outlook and paste text into draft email
3) change formatting from "HTML" to plain text
4) see text links convert to full URLs
5) copy these back into Excel

Thanks! Very helpful and much used. Wondered why Microsoft does not include this as a standard function just like =Len(A1)

@Ricardo Ruiz
HL.Address truncates everything after and incuding # (hash sign). You can try to first replace # by %23. This might work.

This is a great Trick!! However, I am having an issue pulling the full hyperlink. Does the Marco not recognize the pound sign? I have over 1500 links I am trying to pull the full hyperlink and this would make my life a lot easier.

The Full hyperlink is = https://www.acquisition.gov/content/part-52-solicitation-provisions-and-contract-clauses#i1063244
The link the Marco Provides = https://www.acquisition.gov/content/part-52-solicitation-provisions-and-contract-clauses

Worked perfectly in Excel 2016/O365. Thanks!

The information above is not helping me for some reason. I am attempting to pull hyperlinks from a main list, pull it into a sheet that is indexing certain information to another sheet that is listing information to cleaning index only those items that need to be viewed. I am having difficulty pulling the associated hyperlinks to the indexed information.

Thank you VERY MUCH. You saved me hours of work today. The simple custom function did a perfect job ef extracting more than 100 URLs from a spreadsheet, and I was then able to organize everything very quickly and get on with my day.

Thank you!

Hey. I'm normally pretty lazy commenting on stuff. But this tip has just saved me loads of time. Thanks!!

your macro for extracting mjltiple url's from a list saved me a TON of work. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! ...you help very many more people than you know!!

Thanks a lot for this tip, helped me so much, and saved a lot of time.

Hi I would like to copy a URL website link from one cell to another. When this one cell that contains the website link is updated, I would like for all the other cells to have updated URL website links too. How can I do this?

Thanks

Thank you so much for this post. You have saved me a bunch of time. ExtractHL macro worked perfectly for me.

Many thanks! A colleague painstakingly put over 100 hyperlinks in cells with shorter captions, not realizing I would have to pull them all out again to copy them out to other documents. Ran Sub ExtractHL once. Boom! Great tip.

Function GetURL(rng As Range) As String
On Error Resume Next
GetURL = rng.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End Function

This worked like MAGIC! thanks for being awesome!

@Rob Cooper

HL.Address truncates everything after and incuding # (hash sign). I do not see a solution to this.

Hi,
I tried the GetUrl function, but ran into the following difficulty.
The address of the hyperlink on which I applied GetUrl is:

http://documentation.custhelp.com/euf/assets/devdocs/may2016/PolicyAutomation/en/Default.htm#Guides/Policy_Modeling_User_Guide/Walkthrough_OPM.htm

i.e. it is a particular topic in an on-line book.

GetUrl only returned
http://documentation.custhelp.com/euf/assets/devdocs/may2016/PolicyAutomation/en/Default.htm,
the address only up to the first 'htm'.

Any ideas for how to return the whole address?

Thanks.

Thanks, you rock!

Nice tip, simple and very effective.

Leonardo

FORMULATEXT is introduced in Excel 2013.
These tips apply to Excel 97 ... 2003.

Or without Macro fuction just:
=MID(FORMULATEXT(B1);FIND(CHAR(34);FORMULATEXT(B1))+1;FIND(CHAR(34);FORMULATEXT(B1);FIND(CHAR(34);FORMULATEXT(B1))+1)-1-FIND(CHAR(34);FORMULATEXT(B1)))

where B1 is HYPERLINK.