Markdown export

Export clean Markdown versions of your documentation pages for AI tools, LLM integrations, and automated content processing workflows.

Markdown provides structured text that AI tools can process more efficiently than HTML, which results in better response accuracy, faster processing times, and lower token usage.

Mintlify automatically generates Markdown versions of pages optimized for AI tools and external integrations.

.md URL extension

Add .md to any page’s URL to view a Markdown version.

Accept header

Send a request with Accept: text/markdown or Accept: text/plain to any page URL to receive the Markdown version instead of HTML. This is useful for AI tools and integrations that programmatically fetch documentation content.

curl -L -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://mintlify.com/docs/ai/markdown-export

Automatic detection for AI agents

Mintlify automatically returns the Markdown version of a page when the request comes from a known AI agent, even if the agent does not send an Accept: text/markdown header. This ensures agents receive the most efficient content format without any extra configuration.

Detection is based on the User-Agent header. The following agents are currently recognized:

• Claude-User (Anthropic Claude Code and browsing)
• ChatGPT-User (OpenAI ChatGPT browsing)
• OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI search)
• PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User (Perplexity AI)
• Google-Agent (Google Project Mariner)
• MistralAI-User (Mistral Le Chat)
• DuckAssistBot (DuckDuckGo AI Answers)
• cohere-ai (Cohere AI assistant)

For example, a request with a recognized agent user-agent receives Markdown:

curl -L -H "User-Agent: Claude-User/1.0" https://mintlify.com/docs/ai/markdown-export

Human visitors using standard browsers continue to receive the HTML version of the page.

Audience-specific content

Use the visibility component to customize content for each human and AI audiences.

Content wrapped in <Visibility for="humans"> appears on the web page, but not in Markdown output. Content wrapped in <Visibility for="agents"> appears in Markdown output, but not on the web page.

<Visibility for="humans">
  Click the **Get started** button in the top-right corner to create your account.
</Visibility>

<Visibility for="agents">
  To create an account, call `POST /v1/accounts` with a valid email address.
</Visibility>

API reference pages

By default, Markdown exports of API reference pages include the full OpenAPI or AsyncAPI specification so AI tools have complete context about each endpoint.

If you prefer to omit the spec from Markdown output, set markdown.schema to false in your docs.json:

"markdown": {
  "schema": false
}

Agent feedback

If you enable agent feedback, Mintlify appends an <AgentInstructions> block to each page’s Markdown export that tells agents how to submit feedback about the page’s content.

Agents submit feedback by posting to the endpoint with the page path and feedback text.

Use agent feedback to improve your pages for agents based on what they find incorrect, outdated, or confusing.

Keyboard shortcut

Press Command + C (Ctrl + C on Windows) to copy a page as Markdown to your clipboard.