Url Decode API

POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-decode/execute

Decode a percent-encoded (URL-encoded) string back to plain text.

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Request body

application/json

text

string required

The URL-encoded text to decode.

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "text": "a%20b%20c"
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-decode/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "a%20b%20c"
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-decode/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"text":"a%20b%20c"}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-decode/execute",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"text":"a%20b%20c"},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/url-decode/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"text":"a%20b%20c"}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Also an MCP tool

Call url_decode from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. Same arguments, same output.

https://mcp.findutils.com

MCP reference

Rate limit: 60 a minute, per IP
Auth: API key
REST id: url-decode
MCP name: url_decode
Category: Encoding
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

Request body

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