Link Remover

Simple and lightweight plugin for Obsidian to remove hyperlinks and wikilinks from either selections or the entire file.

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Remove Hyperlink format in file/selection

Input	Output
[Google](www.google.com)	Google
[text with [brackets]](https://example.com)	text with [brackets]
[text with \[escaped\] brackets](https://example.com)	text with \[escaped\] brackets
[OK go song](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Won%27t_Let_You_Down_(OK_Go_song))	OK go song
	REMOVED

Remove WikiLinks format in file/selection

Input	Output
[[example.md]]	example.md
[[example.md|alias]]	alias OR REMOVED (depending on setting)
![[example.png]]	REMOVED
![[example.png|300]]	REMOVED
[[text with \\[escaped\\] brackets]]	text with \\[escaped\\] brackets
[[text with \\[escaped\\] brackets|alias]]	alias OR REMOVED (depending on setting)

Remove Citation links in file/selection

Citation markup is common when pasting AI-generated search results or Wikipedia content. The entire citation is removed.

Input	Output
[[1](url)]	REMOVED
[[1](url), [2](url)]	REMOVED
Text.[[2]](url)	Text. (Wikipedia footnote, optional setting)

Easy Command and Hotkey Assignment

Advanced Features

Hyperlink Type Filtering

You can choose which types of hyperlinks to remove:

• Both Internal and External : Removes all hyperlinks
• Internal Links Only: Only removes internal links like [Page](page.md), [Section](#heading)
• External Links Only: Only removes external links like [Site](https://example.com)

Citation Removal

AI-style citation links ([[1](url)], [[1](url), [2](url)]) are stripped automatically whenever hyperlink removal is active (external scope).

Wikipedia-style footnotes ([[2]](url)) are removed via the optional Remove Wikipedia Citations setting (off by default).

Hyperlink Whitelist

You can whitelist specific domains or URLs that should never be removed.

Note: Whitelist matching is case-insensitive and uses partial matching.

Wikilink Whitelist

You can whitelist specific wikilink paths that should never be removed.

Note: Wikilink whitelist uses exact matching (case-insensitive). The entire wikilink path must match the whitelist entry.

Blacklist Mode

Blacklist mode is the opposite of whitelist mode - it only removes links that match your specified blacklist, leaving all other links intact. This is useful when you want to remove specific unwanted links while preserving everything else.

• You can specify seperate lists for both hyperlink and wikilink blacklist

Note: Use the "Remove blacklisted links" commands to activate blacklist mode. This is the only place this option is available

Release Notes

• 1.0.0: Initial release.
• 1.1.0: Add Notice's for hyperlink removal logic and added context menu options.
• 1.2.0: Added unit testing (for developers) and updated hyperlink removal logic to handle more edge cases.
• 1.2.1: Improved plugin structure, this does not affect functionality but makes it easier to maintain and extend in the future.
• 1.3.0: Added hyperlink removal from image attachment case.
• 2.0.0: Added WikiLinks support with option to keep or remove alias.
• 2.1.0: Added optional setting to keep or remove hyperlink text in [text](link).
• 2.1.1: Added hyperlink whitelist feature to preserve specified domains/URLs.
• 2.2.0: Added hyperlink type filtering (internal/external/both) and hyperlink/wikilink whitelist feature.
• 2.3.0: Added explicit commands to remove links from either internal or extrnal origin.
• 2.4.0: Added sblacklist mode to explicitly remove only links you want (opposite of whitelist).
• 2.4.2: Upgrade all dependencies to latest versions and fix all issues reported in community page.
• 2.5.0: Added support for stripping AI and Wikipedia citation links.
• 2.5.1: Fix issues reported in community page.
• 3.0.0: Added support for filtering out what types of embeds to remove (image, audio, video, pdf, etc).
• 3.2.0: Fix cursor position and viewport jumping when using the remove link command.