Example of using curl and DocumentAlchemy to render a Markdown file as a PDF document via the command line.

md2pdf-example.sh

# Example of using curl and the DocumentAlchemy API to render a 
# Markdown document as a PDF.

# There are several parameters that can be used to control the
# structure and format of the generated PDF document that are 
# not included in this simple example.  See the DocumentAlchemy
# API documentation at <https://documentalchemy.com/api-doc> for
# more information about these options.
#
# See <https://documentalchemy.com/> for more information about 
# DocumentAlchemy's document conversion and processing capabilities.

# Assuming:
#
# - `403l1zh3dkbakyb9` is the value of your Document Alchemy API key,
# - `MY_DOCUMENT.md` is the file you want to convert
# - `MY_DOCUMENT.pdf` is the file you want to save the converted document to
#
# the following command will generate a PDF document from a Markdown file:

curl -H "Authorization: da.key=403l1zh3dkbakyb9" \
     -X POST --form "document=@MY_DOCUMENT.md" \
     https://documentalchemy.com/api/v1/document/-/rendition/pdf \
     -o "MY_DOCUMENT.pdf"

#
# Change `pdf` to `html` to render the Markdown file as an HTML document.
#
# Change `pdf` to `docx` to render the Markdown file as an MS Word document.
#