# Getting Markdown for a post using API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [September 3, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-markdown-for-a-post-using-api/324716 "2024-09-03T16:16:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcmcclur](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcmcclur/32/115456_2.png) [@mcmcclur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcmcclur)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-markdown-for-a-post-using-api/324716/1 "2024-09-03T16:16:36Z")

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It’s easy to get all kinds of information about a post on a Discourse instance using the Discourse API. We can even get the entire text of a post as HTML in it’s “cooked” form. Is it possible, though, to get the original Markdown that was typed in to generate the post via the API?

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