I'm working on a project where we use one input markdown file to create HTML but also TXT files.

The problem I have is with markdown hyperlinks in the form of []().

While for the output format html they are kept:

$ echo "prefix [this is a link](www.google.de) suffix" | pandoc -f markdown -t html
<p>prefix <a href="www.google.de">this is a link</a> suffix</p>

the url is completely removed for plain output:

$ echo "prefix [this is a link](www.google.de) suffix" | pandoc -f markdown -t plain
prefix this is a link suffix

Is there a way/plugin to keep the url within the plain output?
(e.g. by keeping the markdown [this is a link](www.google.de) as it is, but handling all other markdown as usual?)

Thank you