remark plugin to automatically add target and rel attributes to external links.

This plugin is ready for the new parser in remark (remarkjs/remark#536). The current and previous versions of the plugin work with the current and previous versions of remark.

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install remark-external-links

Say we have the following file, example.js:

import {remark} from 'remark'
import remarkHtml from 'remark-html'
import remarkExternalLinks from 'remark-external-links'
remark()
  .use(remarkExternalLinks, {target: false, rel: ['nofollow']})
  .use(remarkHtml)
  .process('[remark](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark)')
  .then((file) => {
    console.log(String(file))
  })

Now, running node example yields:

<p><a href="https://github.com/remarkjs/remark" rel="nofollow">remark</a></p>

This package exports no identifiers. The default export is remarkExternalLinks.

Automatically add target and rel attributes to external links.

How to display referenced documents (string?: _self, _blank, _parent, or _top, default: _blank). Pass false to not set targets on links.

Link types to hint about the referenced documents (Array.<string> or string, default: ['nofollow', 'noopener', 'noreferrer']). Pass false to not set rels on links.

When using a target, add noopener and noreferrer to avoid exploitation of the window.opener API.

Protocols to check, such as mailto or tel (Array.<string>, default: ['http', 'https']).

hast content to insert at the end of external links (Node or Children). Will be inserted in a <span> element.

Useful for improving accessibility by giving users advanced warning when opening a new window.

Properties to add to the span wrapping content, when given.

options.content is used and injected into the tree when it’s given. This could open you up to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack if you pass user provided content in.

This may become a problem if the Markdown later transformed to rehype (hast) or opened in an unsafe Markdown viewer.

Most likely though, this plugin will instead protect you from exploitation of the window.opener API.

See contributing.md in remarkjs/.github for ways to get started. See support.md for ways to get help.

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MIT © Cédric Delpoux