Oh, I see! Thanks for clarifying.
At the moment there isn’t a good way to display clickable links without pushing text through the Markdown processor, so I see your problem.
I think your best solution then is to do some data cleaning on each title to get Markdown special-character escapes done. Something like:
cleaned_titles = []
MD_SPECIAL_CHARS = ["\`*_{}[]#+-."]
for title in titles:
for char in MD_SPECIAL_CHARS:
if char in MD_SPECIAL_CHARS:
title = title.replace(char, "\"+char)
cleaned_titles.append(title)
(If you need to make this loop more efficient, you might use re.sub from the regular expression libary instead.)
Does this seem like it addresses the problem? Let us know!
(edit: fixed typo in my code snippet)