linkedown
Bidirectional Markdown ↔ LinkedIn Unicode converter.
LinkedIn does not render Markdown, but does display Unicode styled characters correctly.
linkedown converts between the two formats — both as a CLI tool and as an MCP server
for use by coding agents.
The Markdown → LinkedIn conversion logic is derived from md-to-linkedin by Scott Henning (MIT).
Installation
pip install linkedown
CLI usage
# Markdown → LinkedIn
md2li post.md # print to stdout
md2li post.md -o linkedin.txt # write to file
md2li post.md --copy # copy to clipboard
# LinkedIn → Markdown
li2md post.txt
li2md post.txt -o post.md
# Pipe
cat post.md | md2li
MCP server
linkedown-mcp # stdio server for Copilot/Claude/Codex/Cline
uvx linkedown linkedown-mcp
Tools exposed:
md_to_linkedin_tool— Markdown → LinkedIn Unicodelinkedin_to_md_tool— LinkedIn Unicode → Markdown
Supported formatting
| Markdown | LinkedIn output |
|---|---|
**bold** |
𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 (sans-serif bold) |
*italic* |
𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤 |
`code` |
𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 (monospace) |
# Heading |
𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 |
- item |
• item |
``` block |
▸ prefixed lines |
> quote |
│ quote |
[text](url) |
text (url) |
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License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Attribution: Markdown → LinkedIn conversion logic derived from shenning00/md-to-linkedin (MIT).
1 maintainer
Metadata
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