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Markdown Reference Link Converter

Flip Markdown between inline links [text](url) and reference-style [text][1] with the URL list at the bottom. Useful for cleaning up long blog posts or READMEs with many citations — reference style keeps prose readable and lets you change a URL once instead of finding every occurrence.

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Reference Table

Every URL extracted from the input, in the order it first appears. Edit the input to change.

About reference-style links

Both syntaxes render identically to HTML, but reference-style is friendlier for editing: the URL appears once at the bottom, the prose stays scannable, and updating a URL is a single change instead of a find-and-replace. CommonMark and GFM both support this form, including image references with ![alt][label] and a definition row of [label]: url "optional title". Labels are case-insensitive and may contain spaces.

The slug label style derives a label from the link text (e.g. [Anthropic blog](url)[anthropic-blog]). When two links share a URL and dedupe is on, they share a label; otherwise each gets its own.