markdown-link-extractor

Extracts links from markdown texts.

Installation

$ npm install --save markdown-link-extractor

API

markdownLinkExtractor(markdown)

Parameters:

• markdown text in markdown format.

Returns:

• an array containing the URLs from the links found.

Examples

const { readFileSync } = require('fs');
const markdownLinkExtractor = require('markdown-link-extractor');

const markdown = readFileSync('README.md', {encoding: 'utf8'});

const links = markdownLinkExtractor(markdown);
links.forEach(link => console.log(link));

Upgrading to v4.0.0

• anchor link extraction no longer supported

Code that looked like this:

const { links } = markdownLinkExtractor(str);

Should change to this:

const links = markdownLinkExtractor(str);

Upgrading to v3.0.0

• extended mode no longer supported
• embedded image size parameters in ![]() no longer supported

Testing

npm test

License

See LICENSE.md