API: get task Description as rich text or Markdown or HTML
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Jake Spirek
Currently when you use the API to get a task, you lose all formatting of the Description field.
We need to have options for how to receive that text so it's not lost.
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Ivan Villa
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We have added support for Markdown import and export; you can find the details in the documentation, including any additional parameters to add. https://clickup.com/api/clickupreference/operation/GetTasks/
Marco Bernasocchi
now that fields can also have rich text I'd add this as well (get AND set)
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Meetu
I need this feature, too
James Barry
Same thing for Task Comments, having rich-text, markdown, or html version of comments would be very helpful
Jake Spirek
Thank you for delivering this! 🙌 https://dev-doc.clickup.com/333/d/ad-714989/2023-release-notes/ad-3065605/release-notes-2-203-copy
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Joseph Ghafari
Jake Spirek: It is a good first step, thanks for adding the request! Just wish they didn't pick the easy way out with markdown and actually delivered sth that supports all of their formatting options. Markdown barely supports a handful. Oh well, clickup will be clickup...
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Lan Nguyen
Guys, it's 2023 now and task description still is in plain text. Also webhook doesn't send out task content / description any more.
Christian Jaentsch
Same here. People put a lot of effort in formatting their tasks (incl. images), yet the API only gets plain text. We need this, too!
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Akkaradech Sreesa-ngar
I Need this feature, too
Oliver
In our space we are using some custom automations for syncing and enhancing different types of tasks, but as of now a lot information is lost in that process and often needs manual rework.
I'd like to see a way to retrieve the fully marked-up task description as well as updating it back.
While standard Markdown might be a quite limited with regards to custom markup (MDX?), HTML on the other and could be too flexible and hard to validate.
For some of our projects we are using Slack's Block Kit API, maybe something similar could be a good fit here.
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Joseph Ghafari
+1 for HTML for both read and write because Markdown barely supports a portion of the available formatting options.
Also, how is that not a thing already? It should have been baked in from the start. Please ClickUp, let us do actual productive things rather than give us useless features like changing the colour of a list...
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