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

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The Markdown text to render in HTML.

text

mode

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

context

Render a Markdown document

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

Render a Markdown document in raw mode