Convert Markdown to HTML in Python

Formatting web content in Markdown is, by design, easier for most content creators than coding HTML elements directly. The important thing is to have a way of converting Markdown files to HTML when the time comes — and the below free-to-use API will take care of that conversion with ease. You can implement this API directly into your Python workflow using the ready-to-run code examples provided below, and with a free-tier API key, you can make up to 800 API calls per month (with zero commitments when you reach that limit — your total will simply reset the following month).

To use this API, your first step is to install the SDK by running the below command:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Next (and last), copy in the imports and call the function:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint

# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'



# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertWebApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/inputfile' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.

try:
    # Convert Markdown to HTML
    api_response = api_instance.convert_web_md_to_html(input_file)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling ConvertWebApi->convert_web_md_to_html: %s\n" % e)

Just include your API key in the configuraiton.api_key line to complete your call, and you’re good to go. No further code required!