Markdown for url without hyperlink

Is there a way to add urls in the markdown editor without the automatically generated hyperlink? I was surprised to find out that urls were automatically converted to hyperlinks and can’t find a way to remove them except for this hack that sort of solves it.

[http://www.url-here-instead.com]()

I would think there needs to be a way to remove the automatically generated hyperlinks, or have it documented if there is. Or perhaps another solution would be to remove the automatically generated hyperlink, as if an author wanted the link they would explicitly specify it with the markdown.

[dinaayoub]

To answer the question on the use case, it’s for documentation purposes - for example, on our API i want to instruct people to insert certain information into the URL. e.g. begin the actual game ‘https://latte-blackjack.herokuapp.com/next/{dealerid}’

I don’t want them to be able to click that because it won’t work. they have to remove {dealerid} and replace it with the uuid our API provides them.

[wmthor]

There doesn’t seem to be any real fix for it, and the only way is a workaround. For your case, the simplest workaround might be to usehttps<span>://</span>www.github.com, and then do a string replace <span>://</span> to :// in your JSON parser.