Is there a command line utility for rendering GitHub flavored Markdown?

Question

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 con

Answer 1

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 > "$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.