diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 98e120c..2cad9e5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ version = "1.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5443807d6dff69373d433ab9ef5378ad8df50ca6298caf15de6e52e24aaf54d5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "form_urlencoded"
+version = "1.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e13624c2627564efccf4934284bdd98cbaa14e79b0b5a141218e507b3a823456"
+dependencies = [
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "funty"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -312,6 +321,16 @@ version = "0.3.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d77f7ec81a6d05a3abb01ab6eb7590f6083d08449fe5a1c8b1e620283546ccb7"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "idna"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "634d9b1461af396cad843f47fdba5597a4f9e6ddd4bfb6ff5d85028c25cb12f6"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-bidi",
+ "unicode-normalization",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "include_dir"
 version = "0.7.3"
@@ -400,6 +419,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "tokio",
  "toml",
+ "url",
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
@@ -455,6 +475,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "percent-encoding"
+version = "2.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e3148f5046208a5d56bcfc03053e3ca6334e51da8dfb19b6cdc8b306fae3283e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pin-project-lite"
 version = "0.2.13"
@@ -584,6 +610,21 @@ version = "1.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "55937e1799185b12863d447f42597ed69d9928686b8d88a1df17376a097d8369"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87cc5ceb3875bb20c2890005a4e226a4651264a5c75edb2421b52861a0a0cb50"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec_macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec_macros"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
 version = "1.33.0"
@@ -630,12 +671,38 @@ dependencies = [
  "winnow",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-bidi"
+version = "0.3.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6f2528f27a9eb2b21e69c95319b30bd0efd85d09c379741b0f78ea1d86be2416"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.12"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3354b9ac3fae1ff6755cb6db53683adb661634f67557942dea4facebec0fee4b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-normalization"
+version = "0.1.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c5713f0fc4b5db668a2ac63cdb7bb4469d8c9fed047b1d0292cc7b0ce2ba921"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "url"
+version = "2.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "31e6302e3bb753d46e83516cae55ae196fc0c309407cf11ab35cc51a4c2a4633"
+dependencies = [
+ "form_urlencoded",
+ "idna",
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
 version = "0.2.1"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9b552d9..5f39eee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.189", default-features = false, features = ["std", "der
 serde_json = "1.0.107"
 tokio = { version = "1.30.0", default-features = false, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread", "fs", "io-util"] }
 toml = "0.8.2"
+url = "2.5.0"
 walkdir = "2.4.0"
 
 # Optimized build for any sort of release.
diff --git a/src/error/error.rs b/src/error/error.rs
index a6816ee..44064e3 100644
--- a/src/error/error.rs
+++ b/src/error/error.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ pub(crate) enum CustomError {
     DusterCompile(duster::renderer::CompileError),
     DusterRender(duster::renderer::RenderError),
     PathStripPrefix(std::path::StripPrefixError),
+    UrlParseError(url::ParseError),
 }
 
 impl From<std::io::Error> for CustomError {
@@ -95,3 +96,9 @@ impl From<std::path::StripPrefixError> for CustomError {
         CustomError::PathStripPrefix(value)
     }
 }
+
+impl From<url::ParseError> for CustomError {
+    fn from(value: url::ParseError) -> Self {
+        CustomError::UrlParseError(value)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/intermediate/regular_link.rs b/src/intermediate/regular_link.rs
index c0c11e9..bd86a2d 100644
--- a/src/intermediate/regular_link.rs
+++ b/src/intermediate/regular_link.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use organic::types::StandardProperties;
+use url::Url;
 
 use super::macros::intermediate;
 
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ pub(crate) enum LinkTarget {
 impl LinkTarget {
     pub(crate) fn from_string<S: AsRef<str>>(input: S) -> Result<LinkTarget, CustomError> {
         fn impl_from_string(input: &str) -> Result<LinkTarget, CustomError> {
+            let parsed = Url::parse(input)?;
             Ok(LinkTarget::Raw(input.to_owned()))
         }
         impl_from_string(input.as_ref())