Markdown API

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Version history

Introduced required authentication in GitLab 15.3 with a flag named authenticate_markdown_api. Enabled by default.

Use this API to render Markdown content as HTML.

All requests to this API must be authenticated.

The availability of this feature is controlled by a feature flag. For more information, see the history. This feature is available for testing, but not ready for production use.

Render an arbitrary Markdown document

POST /markdown

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`text`	string	yes	The Markdown text to render
`gfm`	boolean	no	Render text using GitLab Flavored Markdown. Default is `false`
`project`	string	no	Use `project` as a context when creating references using GitLab Flavored Markdown

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
  --header "Content-Type:application/json" \
  --data '{"text":"Hello world! :tada:", "gfm":true, "project":"group_example/project_example"}' "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/markdown"

Response example:

{ "html": "<p dir=\"auto\">Hello world! <gl-emoji title=\"party popper\" data-name=\"tada\" data-unicode-version=\"6.0\">🎉</gl-emoji></p>" }