Is there a command line utility for rendering GitHub flavored Markdown

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I m wondering if there is a command line utility for taking a GitHub flavored Markdown file and rendering it to HTML   I m using a GitHub wiki to create website content  I ve cloned the repository on my server and would then like to process it into regular HTML  It s important to me that what appears on GitHub is exactly how it should look for my website  I d also really like to use the fenced blocks with      so I d rather not use standard Markdown syntax only   I ve looked a bit into the JavaScript live preview thinking I could hook it into Node js  but they say it is deprecated  I ve looked at the redcarpet repository  but it doesn t look like it has a command line interface   I rolled my own solution  however  since no solution here is clearly better than the others  I ll leave the question without a selected answer

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Another option is AllMark - the markdown server  Docker images available for ready-to-go setup    allmark serve   Note  It recursively scans directories to serve website from markdown files  So for faster processing of single file  move it to a separate directory

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I ve not found a quick and easy method for GitHub-flavoured Markdown  but I have found a slightly more generic version - Pandoc  It converts from to a number of formats  including Markdown  Rest  HTML and others   I ve also developed a Makefile to convert all  md files to  html  in large part to the example at Writing  Markdown and Pandoc       Makefile  MARKDOWN   pandoc --from gfm --to html --standalone all    patsubst   md   html   wildcard   md   Makefile  clean      rm -f   patsubst   md   html   wildcard   md       rm -f   bak       html    md       MARKDOWN    lt  --output

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I use Pandoc with the option --from gfm for GitHub Flavored Markdown like this     pandoc my file md   --from gfm -t html -o my file html

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I found a website that will do this for you  http   tmpvar com markdown html  Paste in your Markdown  and it ll display it for you  It seems to work just fine   However  it doesn t seem to handle the syntax highlighting option for code  that is  the    ruby feature doesn t work  It just prints  ruby

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I created a tool similar to Atom s Preview functionality  but as a standalone application  Not sure if this is what you re looking for  but it might be helpful  -- https   github com yoshuawuyts vmd

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Based on Jim Lim s answer  I installed the GitHub Markdown gem  That included a script called gfm that takes a filename on the command line and writes the equivalent HTML to standard output  I modified that slightly to save the file to disk and then to open the standard browser with launchy      usr bin env ruby  HELP    lt  lt -help   Usage  gfm  --readme   --plaintext    lt file gt     Convert a GitHub-Flavored Markdown file to HTML and write to standard output    With no  lt file gt  or when  lt file gt  is  -   read Markdown source text from standard input    With  --readme   the files are parsed like README md files in GitHub com  By default    the files are parsed with all the GFM extensions  help  if ARGV include   --help     puts HELP   exit 0 end  root   File expand path             FILE       unshift File expand path  lib   root   require  github markdown  require  tempfile  require  launchy   mode    gfm mode    markdown if ARGV delete  --readme   mode    plaintext if ARGV delete  --plaintext    outputFilePath   File join Dir tmpdir  File basename ARGF path        html   File open outputFilePath   w   do  outputFile       outputFile write GitHub  Markdown to html ARGF read  mode   end  outputFileUri    file        outputFilePath  Launchy open outputFileUri

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I managed to use a one-line Ruby script for that purpose  although it had to go in a separate file   First  run these commands once on each client machine you ll be pushing docs from   gem install github-markup gem install commonmarker   Next  install this script in your client image  and call it render-readme-for-javadoc rb   require  github markup   puts GitHub  Markup render s GitHub  Markups  MARKUP MARKDOWN  File read  README md      Finally  invoke it like this   ruby   render-readme-for-javadoc rb  gt  gt  project src main javadoc overview html   ETA  This won t help you with StackOverflow-flavor Markdown  which seems to be failing on this answer

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To read a README md file in the terminal I use   pandoc README md   lynx -stdin   Pandoc outputs it in HTML format  which Lynx renders in your terminal   It works great  It fills my terminal  shortcuts are shown below  I can scroll through  and the links work  There is only one font size though  but the colors   indentation   alignment make up for that   Installation   sudo apt-get install pandoc lynx

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Building on this comment I wrote a one-liner to hit the Github Markdown API using curl and jq   Paste this bash function onto the command line or into your    bash profile   mdsee         HTMLFILE    mktemp -u  html      cat   1            jq --slurp --raw-input    text            mode    markdown              curl -s --data  - https   api github com markdown  gt    HTMLFILE      echo  HTMLFILE     open   HTMLFILE      And then to see the rendered HTML in-browser run   mdsee readme md   Replace open   HTMLFILE  with lynx   HTMLFILE  if you need a pure terminal solution

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GitHub has a Markdown API you can use

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GitHub has  since  developed a nice modular text editor called Atom  based on Chromium and uses Node js modules for packages    A default preinstalled package Markdown Preview lets you display your preview in a separate tab using Ctrl   Shift   M   I haven t tested its full syntax  but since it s coming from GitHub  I d be highly surprised if the preview s syntax was different from theirs  fenced blocks using     work    Now  while it s not technically command-line based  it uses Node js and outputs to a DOM-based renderer  which might help anyone trying to render GitHub syntax-based HTML on a Node js-based webserver  or just edit her his README md offline

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Use marked  It supports GitHub Flavored Markdown  can be used as a Node js module and from the command line   An example would be     marked -o hello html hello world  D   cat hello html  lt p gt hello world lt  p gt

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Improving upon  barry-stae and  Sandeep answers for regular users of elinks you would add the following to  bashrc   function mdviewer       pandoc      elinks --force-html     Don t forget to install pandoc  and elinks

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pip3 install --user markdown python3 -m markdown readme md  gt  readme html   It doesn t handle GitHub extensions  but it is better than nothing  I believe you can extend the module to handle the GitHub additions

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pandoc with browser works well for me   Usage  cat README md   pandoc -f markdown github   browser  Installation  Assuming you are using Mac OSX       brew install pandoc   brew install browser   Or on Debian Ubuntu  apt-get install pandoc browser

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There is a really nice and simple tool for browsing GFM Markdown documents   GFMS - Github Flavored Markdown Server  It s simple and lightweight  no configuration needed  HTTP server you can start in any directory containing markdown files to browse them   Features    Full GFM Markdown support Source code syntax highlighting Browsing files and directories Nice looking output  and configurable CSS stylesheets  Export to PDF

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Late addition but showdownjs has a CLI tool you can use to parse MD to HTML

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Maybe this might help   gem install github-markdown   No documentation exists  but I got it from the gollum documentation  Looking at rubydoc info  it looks like you can use   require  github markdown    puts GitHub  Markdown render gfm  your markdown string     in your Ruby code  You can wrap that easily in a script to turn it into a command line utility      usr bin env ruby    render rb require  github markdown   puts GitHub  Markdown render gfm File read ARGV 0     Execute it with   render rb path to my markdown file md  Note that this is not safe for use in production without sanitization

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I wrote a small CLI in Python and added GFM support  It s called Grip  Github Readme Instant Preview    Install it with     pip install grip   And to use it  simply     grip   Then visit localhost 5000 to view the readme md file at that location   You can also specify your own file     grip CHANGES md   And change port     grip 8080   And of course  specifically render GitHub-Flavored Markdown  optionally with repository context     grip --gfm --context username repo issue md   Notable features    Renders pages to appear exactly like on GitHub Fenced blocks Python API Navigate between linked files  thanks  vladwing   added in 2 0 Export to a single file  thanks  iliggio   added in 2 0 New  Read from stdin and export to stdout added in 3 0   Hope this helps someone here  Check it out

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My final solution was to use Python Markdown  I rolled my own extension that fixed the fence blocks

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Improving upon  barry-stae s solution  Stick this snippet in    bashrc  function mdviewer      pandoc      lynx -stdin     Then we can quickly view the file from the command-line  Also works nicely over SSH Telnet sessions   mdviewer README md

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This is mostly a follow-on to  barry-staes s answer for using Pandoc  Homebrew has it as well  if you re on a Mac   brew install pandoc   Pandoc supports GFM as an input format via the markdown github name   Output to file  cat foo md   pandoc -f markdown github  gt  foo html   Open in Lynx  cat foo md   pandoc -f markdown github   lynx -stdin   To open in Lynx   Open in the default browser on OS X  cat foo md   pandoc -f markdown github  gt  foo html  amp  amp  open foo html   To open in the default browser on OS X    TextMate Integration  You can always pipe the current selection or current document to one of the above  as most editors allow you to do  You can also easily configure the environment so that pandoc replaces the default Markdown processor used by the Markdown bundle   First  create a shell script with the following contents  I ll call it ghmarkdown       bin bash   Note included  optional --email-obfuscation arg pandoc -f markdown github --email-obfuscation references   You can then set the TM MARKDOWN variable  in Preferences Variables  to  path to ghmarkdown  and it will replace the default Markdown processor

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A  quick-and-dirty  approach is to download the wiki HTML pages using the wget utility  instead of cloning it  For example  this is how I downloaded the Hystrix wiki from GitHub  I m using Ubuntu Linux       wget -e robots off -nH -E -H -k -K -p https   github com Netflix Hystrix wiki    wget -e robots off -nH -E -H -k -K -I  Netflix Hystrix wiki  -r -l 1 https   github com Netflix Hystrix wiki   The first call will download the wiki entry page and all its dependencies  The second one will call all sub-pages on it  You can browse now the wiki by opening Netflix Hystrix wiki 1 html   Note that both calls to wget are necessary  If you just run the second one then you will miss some dependencies required to show the pages properly

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Probably not what you want  but since you mentioned Node js  I could not find a good tool to preview GitHub Flavored Markdown documentation on my local drive before committing them to GitHub  so today I created one  based on Node js  https   github com ypocat gfms  So perhaps you can reuse the showdown js from it for your Wiki  if your question is still actual  If not  maybe other people facing the same problem as I did will find  just as I did  this question and this answer to it

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I recently made what you want  because I was in need to generate documentation from Markdown files and the GitHub style is pretty nice  Try it  It is written in Node js   gfm

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Also see https   softwareengineering stackexchange com a 128721 24257        If you re interested in how we  Github  render Markdown files  you might want to check out Redcarpet  our Ruby interface to the Sundown library    Ruby-script  which use Redcarpet  will be  command line utility   if you ll have local Ruby

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