how can I get a pagination link URL instead of a made-up anchor link?
currently, I used

<?php next_posts_link(); ?>
<?php previous_posts_link(); ?>

for pagination but it returns a, I want to know is there any way to get just the next/prev URL?

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If you check out the source, they’re both wrappers around *_posts(), which in turn are wrappers for get_*_posts_page_link() (where the wildcard indicates either next or previous).

For example, next_posts() will echo or return the escaped URL, depending on the first argument:

$escaped_url = next_posts( false /* Don't echo */ ); 
next_posts(); // Prints escaped URL

Otherwise you can get the raw URL with get_next_posts_page_link() and do with it as you wish:

 $raw_url = get_next_posts_page_link();

 wp_redirect( $raw_url );

 // or...
 echo esc_url( $raw_url );

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