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Markdown link extractor

Pull all the links out of Markdown text. Paste the text or drop the file; nothing leaves the page either way.

Markdown link extractor works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. You will find it under JSON, XML & formats, with JSON keys extractor and CSV to Markdown table for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Markdown link extractor do?

Pull all the links out of Markdown text. Paste the text or drop the file; nothing leaves the page either way.

When would I actually use this?

Making a machine-generated blob readable, finding the character where a parse fails, and shrinking a file before it ships.

What is the most common mistake?

Assuming valid means correct. A document can parse cleanly and still have the wrong shape for whatever will read it — validation checks the syntax, not the schema.

How is Markdown link extractor different from JSON keys extractor?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: JSON keys extractor is the one to open when you need it to list all the keys of a JSON object as dot-notation paths. Works on a pasted block or on a file you drop in. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

CSV to Markdown table is the closest one after this: Turn CSV into a Markdown table, quoting and all: a field may hold the delimiter, a line break or a pipe and the table still lines up. Comma, semicolon (French Excel), tab or pipe, detected or forced.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Markdown to HTML and Markdown Table Generator — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Parsing and serialisation follow each format's specification. Key order and whitespace are not semantically meaningful in JSON or YAML, so a reformatted document is equivalent even when the bytes differ.

Further reading

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How-toBuilding a Markdown Table From Scratch, Without Counting Dashes by HandThe smallest thing that is still a table is two lines: a header row and a delimiter row. Here is why the second one is mandatory in GitHub Flavored Markdown, where pipe tables do not exist at all, and what a generator does that hand-typing cannot.GuidePasting a Table Into a Pull Request: What Breaks, and the Two Characters That Break ItA Markdown table has exactly two forbidden characters in a cell: the pipe and the line break. Here is what each one does, how a converter handles them, why the escape has to be applied in the right order, and why padding never matters.GuideTransposing a Table Whose Rows Should Have Been ColumnsWhat happens to the header row, what happens to rows of unequal length, what happens to types — and the one thing transposing is regularly mistaken for and cannot do.How-toMarkdown: A Beginner's GuideFormat plain text with a few symbols: # for headings, ** for bold, - for lists. Here's what markdown is, the core syntax, why it's everywhere, and the gotchas.GuideBeautify or Minify: What Each Is For, and What It Does to the WeightFour real stylesheets run through the minifier, measured raw and after gzip. Stripping every space saved 48, 103, 104 and 147 compressed bytes; stripping comments saved 57, 1 358, 2 420 and 1 042. Plus the five inputs this minifier breaks.ExplainerCSV to JSON: The Five Cases That Break Every ConverterQuoted delimiters, embedded newlines, ambiguous types, duplicate headers and encoding. Each one was run through the converter and the exact output is printed here — including the two cases it does not rescue.