shellmarkdownpandocepub

How can I remove pandoc EPUB links in markdown conversion?

I am using the following shell command to convert from EPUB to Markdown,

pandoc "input.epub" -t gfm-raw_html -o output.md

It's working well, except for the fact that EPUB links remain, like:

[About the Author](#part0000_split_000.html_x9780698161863_EPUB)

Is there a pandoc option to remove those ?

Solution

  • The documentation provides example code to do precisely this:

    What if we want to remove every link from a document, retaining the link’s text?

    #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell
-- delink.hs
import Text.Pandoc.JSON

main = toJSONFilter delink

delink :: Inline -> [Inline]
delink (Link _ txt _) = txt
delink x              = [x]

    which can be used like:

    pandoc "input.epub" -F delink.hs -t gfm-raw_html -o output.md