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Post and Comment only carried the rendered HTML body. Store the Markdown source Reddit already returns (selftext for posts, body for comments) in a new body_md field, so a Markdown view can print it instead of embedding HTML. Removed content gets a plain "[removed]" placeholder. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wants_markdown() checks Content-Type/Accept for text/markdown, markdown() builds the response like template() does for HTML, and page() picks one of the two for a request. error() and info() use a small message.md template when Markdown is requested. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Post listing entries, media, poll, badges and user comments are used by several pages, so they live in md/utils.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comments are nested Markdown lists, one level of indentation per reply. Askama does not allow recursive macros, so Comment::markdown() renders a comment's replies through comment.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wikis keep Reddit's Markdown source (content_md) next to the HTML. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Community descriptions are collapsed to one line so they stay in a list item. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Redlib pages can now be returned as Markdown. When a request has
Content-Type: text/markdown(orAccept: text/markdown), the page is rendered from a Markdown template instead of the HTML one. Without that header nothing changes; a browser'sAccept: text/html,...never triggers it.This makes it easy to feed Reddit threads to an LLM or a script without HTML noise.
Covered pages
Front page, subreddits (incl.
a+b,all,popular), posts with nested comments, user pages, search (global and per subreddit), duplicates, wiki/sidebar, and the error/info pages. Comments are nested Markdown lists, one indent level per reply.Not covered:
/settings, the media proxies and RSS keep their formats.How
PostandCommentkeep Reddit's Markdown source in a newbody_mdfield (selftext/body), so the templates print Markdown rather than embedding the rendered HTML.wants_markdown(),markdown()andpage()inutils.rs:markdown()builds the response liketemplate()does for HTML,page()picks one for a request.XxxMarkdown<'a> { t: &'a XxxTemplate }wrapper, so a handler builds its data once and only the last step differs (page(&req, &html, &md)). Fetching, settings and filtering are shared with the HTML page, including the NSFW display setting.templates/md/. Askama forbids recursive macros, soComment::markdown()renders replies throughcomment.md.Commits are split so each one builds on its own (I ran
cargo checkon every commit).Notes / open questions
/r/...,/img/...), like the HTML pages.Allocator\_api) and absolute reddit.com links that are not rewritten.should_be_nsfw_gated) and subscription filters apply as they do for HTML because the handlers are shared. The NSFW landing and quarantine/gated wall pages themselves are still HTML.br/gzipcompression).Opening as a draft to get feedback on the approach first (header-based negotiation rather than a URL suffix, and the wrapper-struct pattern).
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