I’m using only the API of Discourse with a custom UI. I want to support some custom Markdown extensions which I’d like the “cooked” content of a post to honor. I think there are probably a few ways to do this: Get Discourse to use a custom Markdown parser When posting, convert the Markdown to HTM…

What are the exact changes to md you are after?

That’s not totally determined yet, but it’s likely that some content will be rendered dynamically which suggests we won’t want the “cooked” version to be static HTML. I think what we really want is the ability to control what we’re cooking, since we obviously don’t want to throw away whatever sanit…

Something like this? * open in new tab https://meta.discourse.org/raw/46723

Yes, but doing that for every post is going to get expensive. Ideally I want a way to get this off the topic API (t/:topicId.json) BTW, how do you know about that route? Is there some better API documentation than this topic: Discourse API Documentation

[image] cappslock: how do you know about that route? I guess mostly because I’ve spent a lot of time here, I’ve read a lot of posts and I’ve read a good number of lines of code. But also because when I was looking at how post revision history works (note the “raw” button) it could be seen (u…

[image] cappslock: Increasingly I think just getting access to the raw content of the original post (3) is probably what I want. This request has come up a couple of times now. @marktheis & co also wants this: [image] Using Discourse as a community-powered wiki blog …

[image] cappslock: Yes, but doing that for every post is going to get expensive. Ideally I want a way to get this off the topic API (t/:topicId.json) This is already implemented these days, by adding ?include_raw=true Eg: https://meta.discourse.org/t/working-with-different-needs-in-raw-cook…

Working with different needs in raw/cooked content

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erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen) July 7, 2016, 9:57am 7

This request has come up a couple of times now. @marktheis & co also wants this:

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Working with different needs in raw/cooked content

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