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After a site administrator upgrades your Enterprise Server instance to Enterprise Server 3.9 or later, the REST API will be versioned. To learn how to find your instance's version, see "About versions of GitHub Docs". For more information, see "About API versioning."

Markdown

Use the REST API to render a markdown document as an HTML page or as raw text.

Render a Markdown document

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters for "Render a Markdown document"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
text string Required

The Markdown text to render in HTML.

mode string

The rendering mode.

Default: markdown

Can be one of: markdown, gfm

context string

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 for "Render a Markdown document"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

304

Not modified

Code samples for "Render a Markdown document"

post/markdown
curl -L \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/markdown \ -d '{"text":"Hello **world**"}'

Example response

Status: 200
"<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>"

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 for "Render a Markdown document in raw mode"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

304

Not modified

Code samples for "Render a Markdown document in raw mode"

post/markdown/raw
curl -L \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/markdown/raw \ -d '{"text":"Hello **world**"}'

Example response

Status: 200
"<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>"