# Discourse to Markdown Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-to-markdown-plugin/401199
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** markdown, ai
**Created:** [April 22, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-to-markdown-plugin/401199 "2026-04-22T02:33:17Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-to-markdown-plugin/401199/2 "2026-04-22T14:31:22Z")

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This is great, thanks for publishing it!

> [@benword](#):
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> The plugin converts Discourse’s `cooked` HTML — the rendered representation readers see, with oneboxes expanded, mentions linked, and quotes attributed — not `raw`.

This is a pretty cool approach. It gives a richer Markdown than the raw output, because it benefits from Discourse’s `cooking` infrastructure.

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