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- Blackfriday
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- [![Godoc][GodocV2SVG]][GodocV2URL]
- ===========
-
- Blackfriday is a [Markdown][1] processor implemented in [Go][2]. It
- is paranoid about its input (so you can safely feed it user-supplied
- data), it is fast, it supports common extensions (tables, smart
- punctuation substitutions, etc.), and it is safe for all utf-8
- (unicode) input.
-
- HTML output is currently supported, along with Smartypants
- extensions.
-
- It started as a translation from C of [Sundown][3].
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Blackfriday is compatible with any modern Go release. With Go and git installed:
-
- go get -u gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2
-
- will download, compile, and install the package into your `$GOPATH` directory
- hierarchy.
-
-
- Versions
- --------
-
- Currently maintained and recommended version of Blackfriday is `v2`. It's being
- developed on its own branch: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/tree/v2 and the
- documentation is available at
- https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2.
-
- It is `go get`-able via [gopkg.in][6] at `gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2`,
- but we highly recommend using package management tool like [dep][7] or
- [Glide][8] and make use of semantic versioning. With package management you
- should import `github.com/russross/blackfriday` and specify that you're using
- version 2.0.0.
-
- Version 2 offers a number of improvements over v1:
-
- * Cleaned up API
- * A separate call to [`Parse`][4], which produces an abstract syntax tree for
- the document
- * Latest bug fixes
- * Flexibility to easily add your own rendering extensions
-
- Potential drawbacks:
-
- * Our benchmarks show v2 to be slightly slower than v1. Currently in the
- ballpark of around 15%.
- * API breakage. If you can't afford modifying your code to adhere to the new API
- and don't care too much about the new features, v2 is probably not for you.
- * Several bug fixes are trailing behind and still need to be forward-ported to
- v2. See issue [#348](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/348) for
- tracking.
-
- If you are still interested in the legacy `v1`, you can import it from
- `github.com/russross/blackfriday`. Documentation for the legacy v1 can be found
- here: https://godoc.org/github.com/russross/blackfriday
-
- ### Known issue with `dep`
-
- There is a known problem with using Blackfriday v1 _transitively_ and `dep`.
- Currently `dep` prioritizes semver versions over anything else, and picks the
- latest one, plus it does not apply a `[[constraint]]` specifier to transitively
- pulled in packages. So if you're using something that uses Blackfriday v1, but
- that something does not use `dep` yet, you will get Blackfriday v2 pulled in and
- your first dependency will fail to build.
-
- There are couple of fixes for it, documented here:
- https://github.com/golang/dep/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#how-do-i-constrain-a-transitive-dependencys-version
-
- Meanwhile, `dep` team is working on a more general solution to the constraints
- on transitive dependencies problem: https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/1124.
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- ### v1
-
- For basic usage, it is as simple as getting your input into a byte
- slice and calling:
-
- output := blackfriday.MarkdownBasic(input)
-
- This renders it with no extensions enabled. To get a more useful
- feature set, use this instead:
-
- output := blackfriday.MarkdownCommon(input)
-
- ### v2
-
- For the most sensible markdown processing, it is as simple as getting your input
- into a byte slice and calling:
-
- ```go
- output := blackfriday.Run(input)
- ```
-
- Your input will be parsed and the output rendered with a set of most popular
- extensions enabled. If you want the most basic feature set, corresponding with
- the bare Markdown specification, use:
-
- ```go
- output := blackfriday.Run(input, blackfriday.WithNoExtensions())
- ```
-
- ### Sanitize untrusted content
-
- Blackfriday itself does nothing to protect against malicious content. If you are
- dealing with user-supplied markdown, we recommend running Blackfriday's output
- through HTML sanitizer such as [Bluemonday][5].
-
- Here's an example of simple usage of Blackfriday together with Bluemonday:
-
- ```go
- import (
- "github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday"
- "gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2"
- )
-
- // ...
- unsafe := blackfriday.Run(input)
- html := bluemonday.UGCPolicy().SanitizeBytes(unsafe)
- ```
-
- ### Custom options, v1
-
- If you want to customize the set of options, first get a renderer
- (currently only the HTML output engine), then use it to
- call the more general `Markdown` function. For examples, see the
- implementations of `MarkdownBasic` and `MarkdownCommon` in
- `markdown.go`.
-
- ### Custom options, v2
-
- If you want to customize the set of options, use `blackfriday.WithExtensions`,
- `blackfriday.WithRenderer` and `blackfriday.WithRefOverride`.
-
- ### `blackfriday-tool`
-
- You can also check out `blackfriday-tool` for a more complete example
- of how to use it. Download and install it using:
-
- go get github.com/russross/blackfriday-tool
-
- This is a simple command-line tool that allows you to process a
- markdown file using a standalone program. You can also browse the
- source directly on github if you are just looking for some example
- code:
-
- * <http://github.com/russross/blackfriday-tool>
-
- Note that if you have not already done so, installing
- `blackfriday-tool` will be sufficient to download and install
- blackfriday in addition to the tool itself. The tool binary will be
- installed in `$GOPATH/bin`. This is a statically-linked binary that
- can be copied to wherever you need it without worrying about
- dependencies and library versions.
-
- ### Sanitized anchor names
-
- Blackfriday includes an algorithm for creating sanitized anchor names
- corresponding to a given input text. This algorithm is used to create
- anchors for headings when `EXTENSION_AUTO_HEADER_IDS` is enabled. The
- algorithm has a specification, so that other packages can create
- compatible anchor names and links to those anchors.
-
- The specification is located at https://godoc.org/github.com/russross/blackfriday#hdr-Sanitized_Anchor_Names.
-
- [`SanitizedAnchorName`](https://godoc.org/github.com/russross/blackfriday#SanitizedAnchorName) exposes this functionality, and can be used to
- create compatible links to the anchor names generated by blackfriday.
- This algorithm is also implemented in a small standalone package at
- [`github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name`](https://godoc.org/github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name). It can be useful for clients
- that want a small package and don't need full functionality of blackfriday.
-
-
- Features
- --------
-
- All features of Sundown are supported, including:
-
- * **Compatibility**. The Markdown v1.0.3 test suite passes with
- the `--tidy` option. Without `--tidy`, the differences are
- mostly in whitespace and entity escaping, where blackfriday is
- more consistent and cleaner.
-
- * **Common extensions**, including table support, fenced code
- blocks, autolinks, strikethroughs, non-strict emphasis, etc.
-
- * **Safety**. Blackfriday is paranoid when parsing, making it safe
- to feed untrusted user input without fear of bad things
- happening. The test suite stress tests this and there are no
- known inputs that make it crash. If you find one, please let me
- know and send me the input that does it.
-
- NOTE: "safety" in this context means *runtime safety only*. In order to
- protect yourself against JavaScript injection in untrusted content, see
- [this example](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday#sanitize-untrusted-content).
-
- * **Fast processing**. It is fast enough to render on-demand in
- most web applications without having to cache the output.
-
- * **Thread safety**. You can run multiple parsers in different
- goroutines without ill effect. There is no dependence on global
- shared state.
-
- * **Minimal dependencies**. Blackfriday only depends on standard
- library packages in Go. The source code is pretty
- self-contained, so it is easy to add to any project, including
- Google App Engine projects.
-
- * **Standards compliant**. Output successfully validates using the
- W3C validation tool for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
-
-
- Extensions
- ----------
-
- In addition to the standard markdown syntax, this package
- implements the following extensions:
-
- * **Intra-word emphasis supression**. The `_` character is
- commonly used inside words when discussing code, so having
- markdown interpret it as an emphasis command is usually the
- wrong thing. Blackfriday lets you treat all emphasis markers as
- normal characters when they occur inside a word.
-
- * **Tables**. Tables can be created by drawing them in the input
- using a simple syntax:
-
- ```
- Name | Age
- --------|------
- Bob | 27
- Alice | 23
- ```
-
- * **Fenced code blocks**. In addition to the normal 4-space
- indentation to mark code blocks, you can explicitly mark them
- and supply a language (to make syntax highlighting simple). Just
- mark it like this:
-
- ``` go
- func getTrue() bool {
- return true
- }
- ```
-
- You can use 3 or more backticks to mark the beginning of the
- block, and the same number to mark the end of the block.
-
- To preserve classes of fenced code blocks while using the bluemonday
- HTML sanitizer, use the following policy:
-
- ``` go
- p := bluemonday.UGCPolicy()
- p.AllowAttrs("class").Matching(regexp.MustCompile("^language-[a-zA-Z0-9]+$")).OnElements("code")
- html := p.SanitizeBytes(unsafe)
- ```
-
- * **Definition lists**. A simple definition list is made of a single-line
- term followed by a colon and the definition for that term.
-
- Cat
- : Fluffy animal everyone likes
-
- Internet
- : Vector of transmission for pictures of cats
-
- Terms must be separated from the previous definition by a blank line.
-
- * **Footnotes**. A marker in the text that will become a superscript number;
- a footnote definition that will be placed in a list of footnotes at the
- end of the document. A footnote looks like this:
-
- This is a footnote.[^1]
-
- [^1]: the footnote text.
-
- * **Autolinking**. Blackfriday can find URLs that have not been
- explicitly marked as links and turn them into links.
-
- * **Strikethrough**. Use two tildes (`~~`) to mark text that
- should be crossed out.
-
- * **Hard line breaks**. With this extension enabled (it is off by
- default in the `MarkdownBasic` and `MarkdownCommon` convenience
- functions), newlines in the input translate into line breaks in
- the output.
-
- * **Smart quotes**. Smartypants-style punctuation substitution is
- supported, turning normal double- and single-quote marks into
- curly quotes, etc.
-
- * **LaTeX-style dash parsing** is an additional option, where `--`
- is translated into `–`, and `---` is translated into
- `—`. This differs from most smartypants processors, which
- turn a single hyphen into an ndash and a double hyphen into an
- mdash.
-
- * **Smart fractions**, where anything that looks like a fraction
- is translated into suitable HTML (instead of just a few special
- cases like most smartypant processors). For example, `4/5`
- becomes `<sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>5</sub>`, which renders as
- <sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>5</sub>.
-
-
- Other renderers
- ---------------
-
- Blackfriday is structured to allow alternative rendering engines. Here
- are a few of note:
-
- * [github_flavored_markdown](https://godoc.org/github.com/shurcooL/github_flavored_markdown):
- provides a GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer with fenced code block
- highlighting, clickable heading anchor links.
-
- It's not customizable, and its goal is to produce HTML output
- equivalent to the [GitHub Markdown API endpoint](https://developer.github.com/v3/markdown/#render-a-markdown-document-in-raw-mode),
- except the rendering is performed locally.
-
- * [markdownfmt](https://github.com/shurcooL/markdownfmt): like gofmt,
- but for markdown.
-
- * [LaTeX output](https://bitbucket.org/ambrevar/blackfriday-latex):
- renders output as LaTeX.
-
-
- TODO
- ----
-
- * More unit testing
- * Improve Unicode support. It does not understand all Unicode
- rules (about what constitutes a letter, a punctuation symbol,
- etc.), so it may fail to detect word boundaries correctly in
- some instances. It is safe on all UTF-8 input.
-
-
- License
- -------
-
- [Blackfriday is distributed under the Simplified BSD License](LICENSE.txt)
-
-
- [1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ "Markdown"
- [2]: https://golang.org/ "Go Language"
- [3]: https://github.com/vmg/sundown "Sundown"
- [4]: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2#Parse "Parse func"
- [5]: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday "Bluemonday"
- [6]: https://labix.org/gopkg.in "gopkg.in"
- [7]: https://github.com/golang/dep/ "dep"
- [8]: https://github.com/Masterminds/glide "Glide"
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- [BuildSVG]: https://travis-ci.org/russross/blackfriday.svg?branch=master
- [BuildURL]: https://travis-ci.org/russross/blackfriday
- [GodocV2SVG]: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2?status.svg
- [GodocV2URL]: https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/russross/blackfriday.v2
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