Pandoc: automatically convert URLs into hyperlinks

Question

Is there an option which automatically converts URLs into hyperlinks in Pandoc?

E.g.

http://www.test.com

should become

[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)

Or even cooler would be without the protocol:

[www.test.com](http://www.test.com)

Invulnerable

Answer 1

Just surround them in <> : <http://www.test.com>

echo "<http://example.com>" | pandoc
<p><a href="http://example.com" class="uri">http://example.com</a></p>

That will not work without the http:// though. See the documentation.

Jog

This looks good, but in my case, the link is also surrounded by a <code class="url">...</code>. I'm not sure whether I like this. Is there a way to prevent this? – Invulnerable

Answer 2

Actually now you can use a command line option when you specify the input format

$ echo "http://example.com" | pandoc -f markdown+autolink_bare_uris
<p><a href="http://example.com" class="uri">http://example.com</a></p>

Note: I used pandoc version 2.11.4

Arneson