How to extract URL from Link in Google Sheets using a formula?

Question

I have copied from a website a series of hyperlinks and pasted them in a google sheet. The values show up as linked text, not hyperlink formulas, and are still linked correc

Answer 1

If your hyperlink is specified in another cell as a formula—for example let's suppose that cell A1 contains the formula =HYPERLINK("https://www.wikipedia.org/","Wikipedia"), you can extract the Link text using a regular expression. All you need to do is:

=REGEXEXTRACT(FORMULATEXT(A1),"""(.+)"",")

This formula will yield the result:

https://www.wikipedia.org/

No custom functions required.