diff --git a/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveSheetActivity.kt b/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveSheetActivity.kt
index 5786f261e..9648fdd25 100644
--- a/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveSheetActivity.kt
+++ b/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveSheetActivity.kt
@@ -39,12 +39,11 @@ abstract class SaveSheetActivityBase: AppCompatActivity() {
       Intent.ACTION_SEND -> {
         if (intent.type?.startsWith("text/plain") == true) {
           intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT)?.let {
-            Log.d(ContentValues.TAG, "Extracted text: $extractedText")
             extractedText = it
             viewModel.saveURL(it)
+            Log.d(ContentValues.TAG, "Extracted text: $extractedText")
           }
         }
-
         if (intent.type?.startsWith("text/html") == true) {
           intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_HTML_TEXT)?.let {
             extractedText = it
@@ -155,7 +154,9 @@ abstract class SaveSheetActivityBase: AppCompatActivity() {
     viewModel: SaveViewModel,
     modalBottomSheetState: ModalBottomSheetState
   ) {
-    Box(modifier = Modifier.height(300.dp).background(Color.White)) {
+    Box(modifier = Modifier
+      .height(300.dp)
+      .background(Color.White)) {
       SaveContent(viewModel, modalBottomSheetState, modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize())
     }
   }
diff --git a/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveViewModel.kt b/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveViewModel.kt
index b02e92f59..05ad7b3d6 100644
--- a/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveViewModel.kt
+++ b/android/Omnivore/app/src/main/java/app/omnivore/omnivore/ui/save/SaveViewModel.kt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import dagger.hilt.android.lifecycle.HiltViewModel
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking
 import java.util.*
+import java.util.regex.Pattern
 import javax.inject.Inject
 
 @HiltViewModel
@@ -36,6 +37,11 @@ class SaveViewModel @Inject constructor(
     datastoreRepo.getString(DatastoreKeys.omnivoreAuthToken)
   }
 
+  fun cleanUrl(url: String): String? {
+    return Regex("https?:\\/\\/(?:www\\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\\+~#=]{1,256}\\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\\b(?:[-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\\+.~#?&\\/=]*)")
+      .findAll(url).map { it.value }.first()
+  }
+
   fun saveURL(url: String) {
     viewModelScope.launch {
       isLoading = true
@@ -54,6 +60,9 @@ class SaveViewModel @Inject constructor(
         .addHttpHeader("Authorization", value = authToken)
         .build()
 
+      // Attempt to parse the URL out of the text, if that fails send the text
+      val cleanedUrl = cleanUrl(url) ?: url
+
       try {
         clientRequestID = UUID.randomUUID().toString()
 
@@ -62,7 +71,7 @@ class SaveViewModel @Inject constructor(
             SaveUrlInput(
               clientRequestId = clientRequestID!!,
               source = "android",
-              url = url
+              url = cleanedUrl
             )
           )
         ).execute()