Supporting "Links" in the Figma Plugin API

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Hi there,

I am responsible for building tooling that integrates Figma into our orgs internal processes, and one feature gap is the inability to support dynamically generated links via the Figma Plugin API.

Example use case:

  1. User runs our plugin
  2. User enters a few links relevant to the Figma project
  3. A card is rendered into Figma project, with clickable links for engineers / product managers / etc

Additionally, it would be beneficial if we were able to read the link data associated with Figma nodes.

Support for creating links would substantially bolster plugin possibilities. Any chance this is something that will be released soon?

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Hey there! Are you looking to use a plugin to create hyperlinks in Figma? We support that ability: TextSublayer · Figma Plugins

If you are looking to generate URLs of Figma files, if you are an Organization plan member, you can create a private plugin that accesses the fileKey of the current file, and you can use that to generate a URL for the current file. You’ll want to set enablePrivatePluginApi to true and then you can run figma.fileKey.