Remove display/alias text from links OR convert TO hyperlinks

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I’m not even sure why this has to be posted, I feel this is a pretty basic feature already. There’s plenty of plugins out there for manipulating links, but for some reason everyone hates just a simple, regular, hyperlink?

What I’m trying to do

I have a note with a large list of links, in md format .(). I want to convert all of them to just the URL. There’s too many to it manually.

Things I have tried

I have tried Links Remover, Link Converter, and several other plugins - I don’t remember them all.
”Links” by MiiKey just crashes Obsidian instead.

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I do changes across my vault by opening the vault folder in VS Code and then use folder-wide search and replace with regex.

Make a backup of your vault before if something goes wrong.

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I think I’ve heard something like this but it’s too advanced for me, I honestly have no clue what that even means. And if it involves risks of messing up my vault, even if I have abckups I’d rather not just risk it. It’s my Study Vault…
But for this specific problem it’s only regarding one note

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Most likely, all of the plugins mentioned do something similar to modify the link format. By using any of them, you are already taking a risk.

This is exactly why having a backup is essential, particularly when making major changes to your vault — whether you’re doing it manually or relying on a plugin to do it for you.

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if it’s just one note, you could use regex101. here’s a pattern that will likely work. just paste the contents of the note in the test string field.

i wanted to link the regex plugin that i use but apparently it’s been removed lol

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Hm, never realised that. Thank you for informing me. I already set up a sync using Mega, but I don’t know how to back it up. I can’t backup the same file that is syncing, and I won’t be able to keep up with doing manually.

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thank you! exactly what I needed.