Markdown Link Extractor

Extract links from Markdown

This tool pulls every link out of a Markdown document and collects them into a clean list. It recognises the three ways links appear in Markdown: inline links written with text in square brackets followed by the URL in parentheses, reference-style links defined with an identifier and a URL, and bare URLs written plainly in the text. You can output just the URLs, pairs of link text and URL, or a tidy Markdown list, and optionally remove duplicate URLs.

Optional link titles in quotes after the URL are stripped, so you get the clean destination address.

Why extract Markdown links

Writers and developers often need an inventory of the links in a document, whether to check them for broken destinations, build a list of references, audit outbound links, or migrate content. Doing this by hand across a long document is tedious and easy to get wrong. Extracting them automatically gives you a complete, deduplicated list in seconds.

The link text alongside each URL helps you understand the context without opening the document, which is useful when reviewing or cleaning up references. All extraction happens locally in your browser, keeping your content private.

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