Question: Is there a way to avoid getting markdown links removed during ingestion?

Ingesting markdown files results in
```
This is a [test URL](https://test.com).
```

being ingested as

```
This is a test URL.
```

discarding the actual URL portion.

Is there a way to tell the markdown chunking/ingestion library to ingest as-is (w/o removing the actual URL)?
Or is the only way to accomplish this is to ingest as .txt?

Thanks!