Non-link footnotes in markdown are reported as broken links.

[jan-ferdinand]

Consider the following file /tmp/file.md:

Some[^1] text.

[^1]: short

Running lychee . produces the following error

[./file.md]:
✗ [ERR] file:///tmp/short | Failed: Cannot find file

To the best of my knowledge, short is never a link but always a footnote. It would be nice for these presumed false positives to not occur.

[mre]

Oh wow, thanks for reporting. Definitely a bug.
If you have the time, you could add a (failing) unit test here: https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/blob/master/lychee-lib/src/extract/markdown.rs
You can use your example Markdown document for the test.
The bug is somewhere in

lychee/lychee-lib/src/extract/markdown.rs

Line 11 in f2b1c29

pub(crate) fn extract_markdown(input: &str, include_verbatim: bool) -> Vec<RawUri> {

[jan-ferdinand]

I've added a test in #1410. Unfortunately, I can't figure out where extraction of markdown links is happening.

[mre]

Thanks. :)

[jan-ferdinand]

You're more than welcome. 😊 I'd have liked to give resolution a shot, but couldn't identify where to start. It's probably somewhere in the parser? If so, that's probably more than I can chew right now.

[mre]

Feel free to dive in. But yeah, it's in the markdown parser in pulldown_cmark, which is the crate we're using for it.