Handy little regular expression to parse links from markdown files.

parseMarkdownLinks.js

// Credit: https://davidwells.io/snippets/regex-match-markdown-links

/* Match only links that are fully qualified with https */
var regex = /^\[([\w\s\d]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[\w\d./?=#]+)\)$/;
var string = "[View the analytics docs](https://getanalytics.io/)";
var myMatch = string.match(regex);

console.log(myMatch);
/* ["[View the analytics docs](https://getanalytics.io/)", "View the analytics docs", "https://getanalytics.io/", index: 0, input: "[View the analytics docs](https://getanalytics.io/)", groups: undefined] */

// de-structure the array
var [ full, text, url ] = myMatch;

console.log(text);
// 'View the analytics docs'

console.log(url);
// 'https://getanalytics.io/'