Laravel JSON Pagination: How to remove the arrows from next/previous link?

I'm using Laravel 8.20.1 and my API route returns a paginated JSON response.

Is there a better way than str_replace() to remove the arrows from the labels?

routes/api.php:

Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->get('/items', function (Request $request) {
  return new ItemCollection(Item::paginate(5));
});

response.data.meta

{
    "current_page": 1,
    "from": 1,
    "last_page": 3,
    "links": [
        {
            "url": null,
            "label": "&laquo; Previous",
            "active": false
        },
        ....
        {
            "url": "http://localhost/api/items?page=2",
            "label": "Next &raquo;",
            "active": false
        }
    ],
    "path": "http://localhost/api/items",
    "per_page": 5,
    "to": 5,
    "total": 15
}

Solution

Those labels for Next and Previous are in the translation files, resources/lang/en/pagination.php. If you look at Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator::linkCollection you can see it building the links part of the response.