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Extract Mentions Guide
Learn when to use Extract Mentions, how to use it correctly, and how to avoid common mistakes.
What this guide covers
Use this extract mentions tool to pull @mention values from chats, drafts, social content, and copied text into a clean result list.
This guide explains when to use Extract Mentions, how to get a cleaner result,
and which mistakes to avoid before moving on to related tools or the main tool page.
Why use Extract Mentions
Finds mention values quickly in copied text.
Useful for chats, social drafts, exports, and moderation workflows.
Helps build clean mention lists without manual scanning.
Works well for quick browser-based extraction.
How to use Extract Mentions
Paste or type text into the input box.
Run the tool to extract @mentions.
Review the output list.
Copy the extracted values if needed.
Best use cases
Collecting mentions from social drafts.
Reviewing chats or comment exports.
Preparing mention lists for reports.
Extracting tagged usernames from longer text.
Common mistakes
Expecting plain names without @ to be extracted.
Fix: This tool only extracts words that start with @.
Expecting duplicates to be removed.
Fix: The tool returns matches as found. Deduplicate the result afterward if needed.
Using spaces inside mention names.
Fix: Mention extraction works on continuous mention-style tokens.
Use the tool
Ready to run Extract Mentions? Open the main tool page to enter your input,
generate the result, and copy or download the output.