# URL Decoder

> URL Decoder is a tool for decrypting URLs.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.cgstudio.urldecoder](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.cgstudio.urldecoder)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.cgstudio.urldecoder`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** CGSTUDIO
- **Category:** TOOLS
- **Downloads:** 810
- **Version:** 1.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-08
- **First published:** 2024-06-21
- **Publisher country:** RU
- **Size:** 30 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgstudio.urldecoder)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://celected.ru/privacy.html](https://celected.ru/privacy.html)

## Description

URL encoding, also known as &quot;percentage encoding&quot;, is a<br>mechanism for encoding information in a single resource identifier (URI).<br>Although it is known as URL encoding, it is actually used more generally<br>within the core Single Resource Identifier (URI), which includes <br>both a single resource locator (URL) and a single resource name (URN).<br>Thus, it is also used when preparing data of the type <br>&quot;application/x-www-form-urlencoded&quot;, as it is often used when<br>presenting HTML form data in HTTP requests.<br><br>What is URL decoding and why is it required?<br><br>URL decoding is the reverse process of URL encoding.It<br>is used to analyze query strings or path parameters<br>passed in the URL.It is also used to decode<br>HTML form parameters, which are presented in MIME format with<br>the application/XWW-FORM-URLENCODE<br><br>URLs, as you may know, can only contain a limited<br>set of characters from the US-ASCII character set.These characters include<br>alphabets (A-z a-z), numbers (0-9), hyphen (-), underscore (_), tilde (~) and <br>Any character outside this allowed set is encoded<br>using URL encoding or percentage encoding.<br><br>This is why it becomes necessary to decode the query strings<br>or path parameters passed to the URL in order to get the actual values.<br><br>A good example of where this might be needed. Let&#39;s<br>say you need to pass another url as a parameter in the url. You can&#39;t substitute this url directly, that&#39;s<br>where url encoding comes to the rescue.<br><br>// http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Findex-2.php<br>$url = urlencode( &#39;http://example.com/index-2.php&#39; );<br><br>// http://example.com/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Findex-2.php<br>echo &#39;http://example.com/index.php?url=&#39; . $url;

## Rankings

- #1,225,394 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE`
- `com.cgstudio.urldecoder.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.cgstudio.urldecoder)