URLs-LE
Extract every URL in a codebase, with its protocol and exact position
No editor in the loop? npx -y urls-le-mcp runs the same engine as an MCP server, so an agent can call extract_urls with nothing else installed, and cargo install urls-le puts the same check in a terminal. Every way to install it.
Overview
What URLs-LE does
Links rot quietly, and the ones in your code and docs are the hardest to inventory. URLs-LE pulls every URL out of the active document, a folder or the whole workspace, so a link audit is a list rather than a grep. The editor lists the URLs alone by default, and a setting adds the line and column of each. The CLI and the MCP server always report them. It reads Markdown, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Properties, TOML, INI and XML, and excludes code blocks and comments where the format defines them.
What people use it for
Link auditing
Every link, autolink and plain URL in Markdown and HTML — code blocks and comments excluded.
Source review
URLs in string literals, template literals and comments across JavaScript and TypeScript.
Config sweep
URLs in JSON strings (escaped https:\/\/ forms included), YAML values, Java properties, TOML/INI values and XML.
Palette
7 commands
Open the command palette and type the name. Nothing is bound to a shortcut by default — the editor's keymap is the user's, not ours.
urls-le.showPositions: Show the line and column of each URL. Off by default.
- Extract URLs
urls-le.extractUrls - Extract URLs from Workspace
urls-le.extractWorkspace - Extract URLs from Folder
urls-le.extractFolder - Deduplicate URLs
urls-le.postProcess.dedupe - Sort URLs
urls-le.postProcess.sort - Open Settings
urls-le.openSettings - Help & Troubleshooting
urls-le.help
Install
Install URLs-LE
VS Code
ext install nolindnaidoo.urls-leOpen Quick Open (Cmd/Ctrl+P) and paste.
Cursor / Windsurf
cursor --install-extension nolindnaidoo.urls-leCursor, Windsurf, VSCodium and the other VS Code forks pull from Open VSX. The id is the same as on the Marketplace.
AI agents
npx -y urls-le-mcpRuns URLs-LE's engine as an MCP server, so an agent can call extract_urls with no editor involved. VS Code 1.101+ needs nothing — the extension registers it for you.
Channels
Where it ships
One engine, 5 places to get it. Copy the one for the editor you use.
Links
Where URLs-LE lives
- VS Code Marketplaceurls-le
- Open VSXfor Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium
- npmurls-le-mcp
- GitHubsource, issues, changelog
- MCP registryio.github.nolindnaidoo/urls-le
The family
The other 16
String-LEExtract every string in a codebase, so a person can read them
Numbers-LEExtract every hardcoded number in a codebase, so a person can check them
Paths-LEExtract every file path in a codebase, and say whether it still points at anything
Colors-LEExtract every color in a codebase, and say which ones are not in your palette
Dates-LEExtract every date and timestamp, and the exact instant each one resolves to
Units-LEExtract every quantity with its unit, normalized, and refuse the ambiguous ones by name
IDs-LEExtract every UUID, ULID, NanoID, ObjectId and Snowflake, and decode the time inside
IPs-LEExtract every IP address, CIDR block and MAC, normalized and classified by scope
Regex-LEFind every regex in a codebase, and report which can be driven into catastrophic backtracking
Scrape-LECheck whether a page is scrapeable before the scraper is written, and say when it cannot tell
Versions-LEFind where one dependency is constrained differently across a repository's manifests
i18n-LEIdentify the i18n library a project uses, then audit its catalogs by that library's rules
DecisionLintLint Jev and Luna questions before they are sent: the questions you write for TypeSafe's Jev, OpenAI's Decisions API (gpt-6-luna) or any platform that serves one, as you type, with no API key and no network calls. An optional command asks the model itself to check a file
Secrets-LEFind hardcoded credentials in a codebase, and never print one into the report
EnvSync-LECompare the dotenv files in a tree, and say which keys are missing from which
Unicode-LEFind the Unicode that hides meaning — bidi controls, invisibles, homoglyphs, mixed scripts