diff --git a/getLinkedFilesFromHtml.js b/getLinkedFilesFromHtml.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97ae245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getLinkedFilesFromHtml.js
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import {fromHtml} from 'hast-util-from-html';
+import {visit} from 'unist-util-visit';
+
+export default async function(value) {
+  const tree = fromHtml(value);
+  const links = [];
+
+  //take tree;
+  //visit nodes matching one of the test patterns;
+  //apply function to those nodes.
+  visit(tree, [
+    {tagName: 'link'},
+    {tagName: 'img'}
+  ], function(node) {
+    links.push(node);
+  })
+
+  return  links.map(link => link.properties.href || link.properties.src)
+}
diff --git a/pathsToObjs.js b/pathsToObjs.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c48d471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pathsToObjs.js
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Original source - https://stackoverflow.com/a/44681235
+// Posted by le_m
+// Retrieved 2026-03-11, License - CC BY-SA 3.0
+// Insert path into directory tree structure:
+//
+//modified to construct an object instead of an array.
+
+function insert(tree = {}, [head, ...tail]) {
+
+  if (tail.length > 0) {
+    tree[head] = insert(tree[head], tail)
+  } else {
+    tree[head] = true
+  }
+
+  return tree;
+}
+
+// Example:
+let examplepaths = [
+  'css/style.css',
+  'about/bird.svg',
+];
+
+//naive! assumes relative path like in example.
+//A more robust implementation would need to resolve paths first, but to what.
+export default function process(paths) {
+  return paths
+  .map(path => path.split('/')
+    //.slice(1) //if path starts with / or ./
+  )
+  .reduce((tree, path) => insert(tree, path), {});
+}
+
+//test:
+// console.log(process(examplepaths));
diff --git a/pipeline.ori b/pipeline.ori
index 159e98f..0b34c73 100644
--- a/pipeline.ori
+++ b/pipeline.ori
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
     }
   })
 
+  links: Tree.flat(Tree.map(renderedPages, getLinkedFilesFromHtml.js), 3)
+    //→ (links) => Tree.flat(links, 2) // → (a) => [...new Set(a)]
+  //linksAstree: pathsToObjs.js(links)
+
 
   /*
   assets are relative to the pubfiles directory