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Markdown

The Markdown API enables you to render a markdown document as an HTML page or as raw text.

Render a Markdown document

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters

Headers
acceptstring

Setting to application/vnd.github+json is recommended.

Body parameters
textstringRequired

The Markdown text to render in HTML.

modestring

The rendering mode.

Default: markdown

Can be one of: markdown, gfm

contextstring

The repository context to use when creating references in gfm mode. For example, setting context to octo-org/octo-repo will change the text #42 into an HTML link to issue 42 in the octo-org/octo-repo repository.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

304

Not modified

Code samples

post/markdown
curl \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/markdown

Response

Status: 200

Render a Markdown document in raw mode

Works with GitHub Apps

You must send Markdown as plain text (using a Content-Type header of text/plain or text/x-markdown) to this endpoint, rather than using JSON format. In raw mode, GitHub Flavored Markdown is not supported and Markdown will be rendered in plain format like a README.md file. Markdown content must be 400 KB or less.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

304

Not modified