Markdown Link Extractor (All Links, Images, References)

Pull every link out of a Markdown document — inline [text](url), reference-style [text][ref], autolinks <url>, and bare URLs. Useful for link audits, broken-link checks, importing references into another tool.

How to use the Markdown Link Extractor (All Links, Images, References)

Paste Markdown. The tool extracts all link references and renders as list / CSV / JSON.

Every link form Markdown allows

Markdown can express a link four different ways: the inline [text](url) form, the reference form [text][label] with the URL defined elsewhere, an autolink <https://example.com>, and a bare URL that renderers turn into a link on their own. A long document mixes all of them freely, which makes it hard to see at a glance every destination it points to.

This extractor scans the whole document, finds links in all four forms, resolves reference labels to their actual URLs, and lists each link with its anchor text. You can include images in the output or leave them out, and export the result as a plain list, CSV, or JSON — handy for auditing destinations, feeding a broken-link checker, or importing references into another tool.

Common use cases

• Link audits — list every destination a document points to in one pass.
• Broken-link checks — export the URLs and run them through a checker to find dead links.
• Content migration — collect all links before moving a post to a new platform.
• Building reference lists — pull the citations or resources out of a long write-up.
• Separating internal and external — review the URL list to see which point off-site.