This mkdocs plugin allows users to convert text such as GHI-123 in their documentation to a corresponding URL, e.g. https://github.com/myproject/issues/123. Unlike similar plugins, argref takes an argument for each reference that can be utilized in the URL.

To install it, using pip:

pip install mkdocs-argref-plugin

Edit your mkdocs.yml file and add these few lines of code:

plugins:
   - argref:
        filter_links: False  #default
        autolinks:
            - reference_prefix: GH-<num>
              target_url: https://github.com/myname/myproject/issues/<num>
            - reference_prefix: JIRA-<num>-<ver>
              target_url: https://jiracloud.com/myproject-<num>?ver=<ver>

• filter_links: When True, will not make replacements within existing markdown links. Caution: This may impact performance in large environments. Defaults to False.
• reference_prefix: This prefix appended by a number will generate a link any time it is found in a page. When no variable is present, will append <num> as the variable.
• target_url: The URL must contain all variables from reference_prefix.

For example, you could edit the docs/index.md file and insert the ticket references like this:

Changelog:
- GHI-100: Add new feature.
- JIRA-231-XYZ: Fix bug.

This will be converted to:

Changelog:
- [GHI-100](https://github.com/myname/myproject/issues/100): Add new feature.
- [JIRA-231-XYZ](https://jiracloud.com/myproject-231?ver=XYZ): Fix bug.

• Fix bug when filter_links=True and multiple autolinks are specified.

• Added ability to use multiple references for each link and skip replacements within links.

• Fixed bug where only one replacement would be made per page.

• Allow extended set for and ignore ref style links, already linked items, and attr_list cases with '#' before the ref

• Ignore already linked references.
• Converts text [AF-100] to a linked version and removes the brackets AF-100

MIT

Originally built with ❤️ by Saurabh Kumar