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In Google Sheets, I have a column with ~17,000 rows each containing text and a hyperlink. The link was not created using a formula and is only displayed when you hover over the cell.

I need to copy ONLY the links from the first column to the neighboring column. It would take years to do this manually and I can't find a quick solution on the internet.

How do I extract the URLs from the links?

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  • Do you need to do this in Sheets? I think it might only be possible with Google Apps Script if so. Otherwise, I could give you a solution involving copying/pasting into other webapps, which I think could be done in less than 5 minutes. Obviously, this means that you would have to update it manually if more rows were added to the sheet.
    – Laurel
    Commented Feb 1 at 18:01

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Use a custom function such as my RichTextLinks. Use it like this:

=RichTextLinks("A1:A1000", A1:A1000)

I maintain the code at the Stack link above, so you can always refer to it to get the latest version.

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