CLI

Render markdown to email-safe HTML from the command line.

Email.md ships with a built-in CLI.

Install

If emailmd is already a project dependency, you can run it via npx:

npx emailmd input.md

To install it as a global command:

npm install -g emailmd

emailmd [file] [options]

If no file is given, the CLI reads from stdin.

Option	Description
`-o, --output <f>`	Write output to a file instead of stdout
`-t, --text`	Output plain text instead of HTML
`-m, --minify`	Minify the HTML output
`-b, --beautify`	Pretty-print the HTML output (ignored with `-m`)
`-h, --help`	Show help
`-v, --version`	Show version number

Render a markdown file to HTML:

emailmd input.md

Write the output to a file:

emailmd input.md -o output.html

Get the plain text version (for the text/plain MIME part):

emailmd input.md --text

Minify the HTML output (useful for staying under Gmail's 102KB clip limit):

emailmd input.md --minify -o output.html

Pretty-print the HTML output (handy for reading it straight in the terminal):

emailmd input.md --beautify

Pipe from another command:

echo "# Hello" | emailmd
curl -s https://example.com/template.md | emailmd -o email.html