diff --git a/esphome/components/web_server_idf/web_server_idf.h b/esphome/components/web_server_idf/web_server_idf.h
index cb3e941c8b..e38913ef4a 100644
--- a/esphome/components/web_server_idf/web_server_idf.h
+++ b/esphome/components/web_server_idf/web_server_idf.h
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ class AsyncWebServerRequest {
   /// Write URL (without query string) to buffer, returns StringRef pointing to buffer.
   /// URL is decoded (e.g., %20 -> space).
   StringRef url_to(std::span<char, URL_BUF_SIZE> buffer) const;
+  /// Get URL as std::string. Prefer url_to() to avoid heap allocation.
+  std::string url() const {
+    char buffer[URL_BUF_SIZE];
+    return std::string(this->url_to(buffer));
+  }
   std::string host() const;
   // NOLINTNEXTLINE(readability-identifier-naming)
   size_t contentLength() const { return this->req_->content_len; }