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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.

January 24, 2021

Lev Bergfeld

Can we add this for long text custom field also in the api that would be hugeeee!

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/

Marcelo Cecin

Hi Ivan, excellent!

Would you expect to also accept HTML?

Diego Merello

Ivan Villa it's great, but:
- if you use a pure link it's perfectly rendered in api output:
[https://t2583707.p.clickup-attachments.com/t2583707/d367a50c-511d-43a4-891c-bd16b2ca9dfa/Fraternita\\_statistica\\_anno\\_iscrizione.png?view=open](https://t2583707.p.clickup-attachments.com/t2583707/d367a50c-511d-43a4-891c-bd16b2ca9dfa/Fraternita_statistica_anno_iscrizione.png?view=open)
n\n
- if you use a bookmark the output of api is a strange translation:
[\n\nt2583707.p.clickup-attachments.com\n\nhttps://t2583707.p.clickup-attachments.com/t2583707/d367a50c-511d-43a4-891c-bd16b2ca9dfa/Fraternita\\_statistica\\_anno\\_iscrizione.png?view=open\n\n](https://t2583707.p.clickup-attachments.com/t2583707/d367a50c-511d-43a4-891c-bd16b2ca9dfa/Fraternita_statistica_anno_iscrizione.png?view=open)
this kind of bookmark ui's in task descriptions are exported in markdown not cleaned, causing a really strange html translation

Marco Bernasocchi

now that fields can also have rich text I'd add this as well (get AND set)

https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/long-text-field-with-rich-text-format

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

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...

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!

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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