Wikilinks to MDLinks
approvedby Agatha Uy
Convert wikilinks to Markdown links and vice versa.
★ 114 stars↓ 20,295 downloadsUpdated 5y ago
Wikilinks to MDLinks (an Obsidian.md plugin)
This plugin allows for the conversion of individually selected wikilinks to markdown links, and vice versa.

How-to
- Click your cursor somewhere within the link you want to convert.
- Either use the hotkey
Ctrl/cmd + shift + L, or pressCtrl/cmd + pto open the settings dialog and search forWikilinks to MDLinks: Toggle selected wikilink to markdown link and vice versa. Just typing in a bit of the command, e.g. "toggle" would likely allow this command to show up via the suggestions the search dialog provides. - The selected link gets toggled to either wikilink format or markdown format, depending on what it was before.
Settings
- Toggle selected wikilink to markdown link and vice versa
Future Plans
- Convert all wikilinks in selected text to markdown
- Convert all markdown links in selected text to wikilinks
Installation
From within Obsidian
- Install via the
Third Party pluginssetting. Search forWikilinks to MDLinks. - Activate the plugin in the settings.
How to run this repo
- Clone this repo.
npm ioryarnto install dependenciesnpm run devto start compilation in watch mode.
Obsidian API Documentation
Based on the following links:
https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plugin https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api
Version History
0.0.5
- Updated for callback check
0.0.4
- Updated markdown link regex
0.0.3
- Updated certain functions as per Obsidian pull request recommendations
0.0.2
- Changed shortcut to
Ctrl/cmd + shift + =due to conflict with previous.
0.0.1
- Initial release. Includes
Toggle selected wikilink to markdown link and vice versa.
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