diff --git a/docs/filter-reference.md b/docs/filter-reference.md
index 6c138771..bd654f19 100644
--- a/docs/filter-reference.md
+++ b/docs/filter-reference.md
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ The `call` method must return either `doc` or `html`, depending on the type of f
 * [`AttributionFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/attribution.rb) — appends the license info and link to the original document
 * [`TitleFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/title.rb) — prepends the document with a title (disabled by default)
 * [`EntriesFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/entries.rb) — abstract filter for extracting the page's metadata
+* [`ExternalUrlsFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb) — replaces external URLs for relative URLs of existant devdocs documentation.
 
 ## Custom filters
 
diff --git a/docs/scraper-reference.md b/docs/scraper-reference.md
index fc00876d..e48fbe0f 100644
--- a/docs/scraper-reference.md
+++ b/docs/scraper-reference.md
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ Additionally:
 
 * [`TitleFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/title.rb) is a core HTML filter, disabled by default, which prepends the document with a title (`<h1>`).
 * [`EntriesFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/entries.rb) is an abstract HTML filter that each scraper must implement and responsible for extracting the page's metadata.
+* [`ExternalUrlsFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb) is an HTML filter that replaces external URLs found in `<a>` tags to urls pointing to existant devdocs documentation.
 
 ### Filter options
 
@@ -185,6 +186,10 @@ More information about how filters work is available on the [Filter Reference](.
 
   _Note: this filter is disabled by default._
 
+* [`ExternalUrlsFilter`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb)
+
+  - `:external_urls` [Hash or Proc] If it is a Hash, replaces all URLs found in `<a>` tags for URLs of existant devdocs documentation. If it is a Proc, it is called with an URL (string) as argument and should return a relative URL pointing to an existant devdocs documentation. See [`backbone.rb`](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/master/lib/docs/scrapers/backbone.rb)
+
 ## Keeping scrapers up-to-date
 
 In order to keep scrapers up-to-date the `get_latest_version(opts)` method should be overridden. If `self.release` is defined, this should return the latest version of the documentation. If `self.release` is not defined, it should return the Epoch time when the documentation was last modified. If the documentation will never change, simply return `1.0.0`. The result of this method is periodically reported in a "Documentation versions report" issue which helps maintainers keep track of outdated documentations.
diff --git a/lib/docs/core/filter.rb b/lib/docs/core/filter.rb
index 5be77883..52b9cfca 100644
--- a/lib/docs/core/filter.rb
+++ b/lib/docs/core/filter.rb
@@ -96,5 +96,15 @@ module Docs
       path = path.gsub %r{\+}, '_plus_'
       path
     end
+
+    def path_to_root
+      if subpath == ''
+        return '../'
+      else
+        previous_dirs = subpath.scan(/\//)
+        return '../' * previous_dirs.length
+      end
+    end
+
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/docs/core/scraper.rb b/lib/docs/core/scraper.rb
index 083b0015..4013755a 100644
--- a/lib/docs/core/scraper.rb
+++ b/lib/docs/core/scraper.rb
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ module Docs
     self.html_filters = FilterStack.new
     self.text_filters = FilterStack.new
 
-    html_filters.push 'apply_base_url', 'container', 'clean_html', 'normalize_urls', 'internal_urls', 'normalize_paths', 'parse_cf_email'
+    html_filters.push 'apply_base_url', 'container', 'clean_html', 'normalize_urls', 'internal_urls', 'normalize_paths', 'parse_cf_email', 'external_urls'
     text_filters.push 'images' # ensure the images filter runs after all html filters
     text_filters.push 'inner_html', 'clean_text', 'attribution'
 
diff --git a/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb b/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..47fbc220
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/docs/filters/core/external_urls.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+module Docs
+  class ExternalUrlsFilter < Filter
+
+    def call
+      if context[:external_urls]
+
+        root = path_to_root
+
+        css('a').each do |node|
+
+          next unless anchorUrl = node['href']
+
+          # avoid links already converted to internal links
+          next if anchorUrl.match?(/\.\./)
+
+          if context[:external_urls].is_a?(Proc)
+            node['href'] = context[:external_urls].call(anchorUrl)
+            next
+          end
+
+          url = URI(anchorUrl)
+
+          context[:external_urls].each do |host, name|
+            if url.host.to_s.match?(host)
+              node['href'] = root + name + url.path.to_s + '#' + url.fragment.to_s
+            end
+          end
+
+        end
+      end
+
+      doc
+    end
+
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/docs/scrapers/backbone.rb b/lib/docs/scrapers/backbone.rb
index 3a5fdb76..944c69a3 100644
--- a/lib/docs/scrapers/backbone.rb
+++ b/lib/docs/scrapers/backbone.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ module Docs
       Licensed under the MIT License.
     HTML
 
+    options[:external_urls] = {
+      'underscorejs.org' => 'underscore'
+    }
+
     def get_latest_version(opts)
       doc = fetch_doc('https://backbonejs.org/', opts)
       doc.at_css('.version').content[1...-1]