How do I stop a url being converted to a markdown link

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Hello, I’m a new user. How do I stop a URL, or part of a URL, that I’ve typed in being converted to a markdown links?

I pasted this in, with backticks on the lines above and below

invoke-restmethod https://micro.blog/micropub?mp-destination=https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog

and it was getting converted to something like

invoke-restmethod https://micro.blog/micropub?mp-destination=[mattypenny-test.micro.blog](https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog)

I might be doing something daft…but I can’t see it atm

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Micro.blog turns URLs into Markdown links except when the URL is inside a code block, so it shouldn’t be doing it in this case. I just did a quick test with your example and it seems to be working for me. Do you mind sharing the full post text? I’m sure it’s a bug in Micro.blog but maybe there is something else that I’m missing.

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Hi, sorry for the delay. The original text is as follows…I’ve edited it a bit but it does reproduce the error:

Sorry about the formatting of this post…I’m having trouble getting markdown not to convert the url to markdown links, even within code blocks

There’s a bit more detail on posting generally from powershell at mattypenny.micro.blog/2024/02/1…

This is the standard bit


$Token = 'whatever-the-token-is' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

$Body = @{ content = 'Testing again. 1 , 2, 1, 2' h = 'entry' 'post-status' = 'draft' }

You then put ‘?mp-destination=’ followed by the URL of the test micro.blog on the end of the base URL as in the gist below. (The markdown conversion is nausing up the URL if I type it in here - sorry!


invoke-restmethod https://micro.blog/micropub?mp-destination=https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog -Method post  -Authentication Bearer -Token $Token -Body $Body

url                                                              preview                                                 edit
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https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog/2024/02/18/testing-again.html https://micro.blog/account/posts/143155/preview/3875601 https://micro.blog/account/posts/143155/edit/3875601
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Then when I’ve posted it, it renders as the below. I could well be doing something daft…I was trying to post it at about 3 in the morning, and possibly since then I just can’t see what it is that I got wrong

This is the standard bit


$Token = 'whatever-the-token-is' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

$Body = @{ content = 'Testing again. 1 , 2, 1, 2' h = 'entry' 'post-status' = 'draft' }

You then put ‘?mp-destination=’ followed by the URL of the test micro.blog on the end of the base URL as in the gist below. (The markdown conversion is nausing up the URL if I type it in here - sorry!


invoke-restmethod [micro.blog/micropub](https://micro.blog/micropub?mp-destination=https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog) -Method post  -Authentication Bearer -Token $Token -Body $Body

url                                                              preview                                                 edit
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[mattypenny-test.micro.blog/2024/02/1...](https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog/2024/02/18/testing-again.html) [micro.blog/account/p...](https://micro.blog/account/posts/143155/preview/3875601) [micro.blog/account/p...](https://micro.blog/account/posts/143155/edit/3875601)
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It’s on the test blog, in case that helps: https://mattypenny-test.micro.blog

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Hey there. Just ran into the same problem, as I was to use justified-swipe box. I am unable to use pasted links of uploaded images, they’re all turned into markdown links after saving the post. For the record: I used the code snipped from GitHub to create a gallery and I changed the urls to the images. Is there any chance the transformation of urls can be prevented?

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Sorry, this was a bug. I just fixed it, although you will need to edit any posts to remove the Markdown link that were already processed incorrectly.

Let me know if you see any problems still.

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Thank you - that’s great!