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REST API endpoints for Markdown - GitHub Docs Skip to main content API Version: 2022-11-28 (latest) REST API endpoints for Markdown Use the REST API to render a markdown document as an HTML page or as raw text.
Depending on what is rendered in the Markdown, you may need to provide additional token scopes for labels, such as issues:read or pull_requests:read.
This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:
The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:
"Contents" repository permissions (read) This endpoint can be used without authentication or the aforementioned permissions if only public resources are requested.
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
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.
Status code Description 200304
Request example Copy to clipboard curl request example curl -L \
-X POST \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
https://api.github.com/markdown \
-d '{"text":"Hello **world**"}'
Example response
Status: 200
"<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>"
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.
This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:
The fine-grained token does not require any permissions.
This endpoint can be used without authentication if only public resources are requested.
Status code Description 200304
Request examples Select the example type Example Rendering markdown Copy to clipboard curl request example curl -L \
-X POST \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
https://api.github.com/markdown/raw \
-d '{"text":"Hello **world**"}'
Example response
Status: 200
"<p>Hello <strong>world</strong></p>"
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