Viewing in Markdown

For any article published, adding .md at the end will return a version of that article in Markdown format.

A link tag is automatically added to the header of any published article to help in the discoverability of markdown source. For example, if you examine the HTML of this article you will find:

<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="https://docs.helpguides.io/article/viewing-in-markdown.md">

LD+Json for Discoverability

LD+Json is automatically included in your published articles as well. This is in addition to other LD+Json already added.

For example, if you examine the HTML of this article you'll find:

<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Viewing in Markdown", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "HelpGuides.io Documentation" }, "datePublished": "2025-06-16", "url": "https://docs.helpguides.io/article/viewing-in-markdown", "encoding": { "@type": "MediaObject", "encodingFormat": "text/markdown", "url": "https://docs.helpguides.io/article/viewing-in-markdown.md" } } </script>

Comment in the Body of the <article>

HelpGuides uses semantic HTML to help search engines and GPT crawlers better understand content structure. A comment is added to the <article> to help AI crawlers discover the markdown version of the content:

<!-- Markdown version of the page is available at "https://docs.helpguides.io/article/viewing-in-markdown.md" -->