Parsing Markdown in Rust

While searching for a good markdown parser in Rust, I found the markdown-rs crate. It is a markdown parser written in Rust. It is a fast and efficient parser. But why not use the pulldown-cmark crate? Because the markdown-rs crate is more feature-rich and has more options such as parsing MDX, frontmatter, and maths. So let’s start by installing the markdown-rs crate.

cargo add [email protected]

Now let’s see how to parse markdown using the markdown-rs crate.

fn main() -> Result<(), markdown::message::Message> {
    println!(
        "{}",
        markdown::to_html_with_options(
            "* [x] [email protected] ~~strikethrough~~",
            &markdown::Options::gfm(),
            
        )?
    );

    Ok(())
}

The above code compiles the markdown to html using the to_html_with_options function. The Options::gfm() function is used to enable GitHub Flavored Markdown. It is just a simple example. But you can do a lot more complex things with the markdown-rs crate such as parsing MDX or even creating your own flavour. Here checkout the API documentation of the markdown-rs crate.