HTML to plaintext links in References section

[relma2]

So... I'm learning to use a TUI email client called aerc and when it views html emails (which is most emails), it converts them to plaintext using pandoc and displays them in the terminal.

My issue is that Links are erased from the plaintext when wrapped in a <a> tag, and I want the links to be placed at the bottom in like a "References" section.

So for example, if the raw HTML says

This is some <a href = "linkaddress">Link Text</a>.

the plaintext should say

This is some [Link Text][1].

and at the bottom it should have

[1]: linkaddress
[2]: linkaddress2
[...]

How do I get pandoc to render like this?

[jgm]

pandoc -f html -t markdown --reference-links should do this.

% pandoc -f html -t markdown --reference-links
This is some <a href = "linkaddress">Link Text</a>.
^D

This is some [Link Text].

  [Link Text]: linkaddress