---
id: urlencode
title: urlencode Search Operator
sidebar_label: urlencode
description: Use the urlencode operator to encode URLs into ASCII character set format, the standard format for sending URLs over the internet.
slug: /help/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/urlencode/
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/search/search-query-language/search-operators/urlencode/
---

import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';

The `urlencode` operator encodes the URL into an ASCII character set. This is the standard format in which URLs can be sent over the internet.

For example, if your URL looks like this:

```
http://yourmainserver-city55555.org/functions/main.php?gk=Gk45MgHJhEYx8bPYvGfiWS7o3KLdfg90&
```

It will be encoded to:

```
http%3A%2F%2Fyourmainserver-city55555.org%2Ffunctions%2Fmain.php%3Fgk%3DGk45MgHJhEYx8bPYvGfiWS7o3KLdfg90%26
```

## Syntax

`urlencode(<url_field>) [as <field>]`

`urlencode("<url string>") as <field>`

## Examples

### Encode URLs from PagerDuty logs

To encode a URL in your PagerDuty logs, you can run this query:

```sumo
_sourceCategory=pagerduty
| kv "html_url" as url
| urlencode(url) as url
```

The query returns the field `url` encoded:

<img src={useBaseUrl('img/search/searchquerylanguage/search-operators/urlencode.png')} alt="URL encode" style={{border: '1px solid gray'}} width="800" />

### Encode a literal URL string

To encode a known URL string directly in a query:

```sumo
| urlencode("http://example.com/path?query=hello world") as encoded_url
```