zulip/templates/zerver/api/render-message.md

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# Render message
Render a message to HTML.
`POST {{ api_url }}/v1/messages/render`
## Usage examples
<div class="code-section" markdown="1">
<ul class="nav">
<li data-language="python">Python</li>
<li data-language="javascript">JavaScript</li>
<li data-language="curl">curl</li>
</ul>
<div class="blocks">
<div data-language="curl" markdown="1">
```
curl {{ api_url }}/v1/messages/render \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
-d "content=**foo**"
```
</div>
<div data-language="python" markdown="1">
{generate_code_example(python)|render-message|example}
</div>
<div data-language="javascript" markdown="1">
More examples and documentation can be found [here](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-js).
```js
const zulip = require('zulip-js');
// Download zuliprc-dev from your dev server
const config = {
zuliprc: 'zuliprc-dev',
};
zulip(config).then((client) => {
// Render a message
const params = {
content: '**foo**',
};
client.messages.render(params).then(console.log);
});
```
</div>
</div>
</div>
## Arguments
{generate_api_arguments_table|arguments.json|render-message.md}
## Response
#### Return values
* `rendered`: The rendered HTML.
#### Example response
A typical successful JSON response may look like:
{generate_code_example|render-message|fixture}
A typical JSON response for when the required argument `content`
is not supplied:
```
{
'code':'REQUEST_VARIABLE_MISSING',
'result':'error',
'msg':"Missing 'content' argument",
'var_name':'content'
}
```