# Create post with markdown date returns error 500

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-post-with-markdown-date-returns-error-500/376663>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 31, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-post-with-markdown-date-returns-error-500/376663 "2025-07-31T05:36:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-post-with-markdown-date-returns-error-500/376663/4 "2025-07-31T09:05:01Z")

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What Discourse version are you on?

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> [@nobodyfrm](#):
>
> `curl -X POST `[https://forum.example.com/posts.json`](https://forum.example.com/posts.json%60) -H “Api-Key: ” -H “Api-Username: nobodyfrm” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d ‘{“topic\_id”: 553,“raw”: “CSD Limburg ` [date=2025-05-10]`”}’`

Your post raw looks funky here. Can you confirm you wrote this

```plaintext
curl -X POST `https://forum.example.com/posts.json` \
-H “Api-Key: <myKey>” \
-H “Api-Username: nobodyfrm” \
-H “Content-Type: application/json” \
-d ‘{“topic_id”: 553,“raw”: “CSD Limburg `` [date=2025-05-10]`”}’

```

> [@nobodyfrm](#):
>
> This error trigger via normal frontend post also!

Or share a video/screenshot of what you are typing in the composer.

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