Make Book render a github Markdown File #1311

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opened 2026-02-05 00:34:11 +03:00 by OVERLORD · 3 comments
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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Aug 23, 2019).

At first, I like to thank you for the awesome Work you are doing with Bookstack! I Am just migrating from Mediawiki and so far I love it! There's just one thing I wonder. I didn't find an Issue or wiki Article related to this question, so I am creating this Issue now:

There are tons of already existing wikis hosted on Github. These Wikis use already Markdown, which Bookstack already supports. Is it possible to include a README.md from a Github page to render in my Bookstack instance as it own book?

I Don't know if this is Already possible. Maybe it would be a good idea to include this in the Wikipage for Markdown, if this feature is already existing.

EDIT: I know I could just copy the Markdown file, but then it wouldn't get updated if the Author changes something.

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Originally created by @ghost on GitHub (Aug 23, 2019). At first, I like to thank you for the awesome Work you are doing with Bookstack! I Am just migrating from Mediawiki and so far I love it! There's just one thing I wonder. I didn't find an Issue or wiki Article related to this question, so I am creating this Issue now: There are tons of already existing wikis hosted on Github. These Wikis use already Markdown, which Bookstack already supports. Is it possible to include a README.md from a Github page to render in my Bookstack instance as it own book? I Don't know if this is Already possible. Maybe it would be a good idea to include this in the Wikipage for Markdown, if this feature is already existing. EDIT: I know I could just copy the Markdown file, but then it wouldn't get updated if the Author changes something. - Thanks
OVERLORD added the 🔨 Feature Request🔌 API Task labels 2026-02-05 00:34:11 +03:00
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@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2019):

Hi @chrissly90,

Thank you for your suggestion and kind feedback. Unfortunately I don't see live rendering of content from other systems being something we'd look to support as part of the core project.

Once we get the API implemented then it could then be not to difficult too script this kind of process otherwise copy & paste is the only official means of including that content.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2019): Hi @chrissly90, Thank you for your suggestion and kind feedback. Unfortunately I don't see live rendering of content from other systems being something we'd look to support as part of the core project. Once we get the API implemented then it could then be not to difficult too script this kind of process otherwise copy & paste is the only official means of including that content.
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2019):

@ssddanbrown Thank you for clarification

@ghost commented on GitHub (Aug 27, 2019): @ssddanbrown Thank you for clarification
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@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 26, 2021):

Closing this since the API has now been implemented, the original issue creator has been deleted and since there's noone else watching this.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 26, 2021): Closing this since the API has now been implemented, the original issue creator has been deleted and since there's noone else watching this.
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Reference: starred/BookStack#1311