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link: ; rel="next memento"; datetime="Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:28:41 GMT", Markdown Rendering | GitHub API
Markdown Rendering API
Render an arbitrary Markdown document
POST /markdown
Input
- text
- Required string - The Markdown text to render
- mode
-
Optional string - The rendering mode
-
markdownto render a document as plain Markdown, just like README files are rendered. -
gfmto render a document as user-content, e.g. like user comments or issues are rendered. In GFM mode, hard line breaks are always taken into account, and issue and user mentions are linked accordingly.
-
- context
-
Optional string - The repository context, only taken into account when rendering as
gfm
{
"text": "Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!",
"mode": "gfm",
"context": "github/gollum"
}Response
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999<p>Hello world <a href="https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/1" class="issue-link" title="This is a simple issue">github/linguist#1</a> <strong>cool</strong>, and <a href="https://github.com/github/gollum/issues/1" class="issue-link" title="This is another issue">#1</a>!</p>Render a Markdown document in raw mode
POST /markdown/raw
Input
The raw API is not JSON-based. It takes a Markdown document as plaintext (text/plain or text/x-markdown) and renders it as plain Markdown without a repository context (just like a README.md file is rendered – this is the simplest way to preview a readme online).
Response
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999<p>Hello world github/linguist#1 <strong>cool</strong>, and #1!</p>This website is a public GitHub repository. Please help us by forking the project and adding to it.
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