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?

[image] Mark McClure: As far as I can tell from the discussion so far, the answer is No, we cannot get the text of a post in Markdown form via the Discourse API. I think you are talking about the topic/SLUG/id.json endpoint? If so, then by adding ?include_raw=true to the endpoint the JSON f…

Getting Markdown for a post using API

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Getting Markdown for a post using API

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