Do you want to get your markdown source from your old post? Or you want to learn markdown by taking a look on other posts and their markdown source?

Install a json viewer on your browser

I'm using the open-source extension json-viewer

Viewing posts

Extracting the markdown code

• add .json to the steemit url of a post.
• copy everything after body": between " and ",
• All newlines are replaced by \n, so you can replace all \n by a newline. You can do this with notepad++ for example.

Replace \n with a line break

• Open notepad++ and copy the source.
• Open Replace or press STRG+h and use the following settings:
  
• Press replace all

Example

Enter into your browser: @steemitblog/dev-portal-update-new-steem-developer-resources.
You see then something like:

Replace all \n with notepad++ and copy everything to an editor of your choice. Now, you can take a look at the source code:

Viewing accounts

You can also take a look on the raw data of an account.

Take a look on an account

• add .json to the steemit url of an account.

Example

Enter into your browser: https://steemit.com/@steemitblog.json

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I hope this short information was helpful for you. For me this is very useful and I did not know this for a long time. Now, I can easily copy some parts from the markdown code of my old post.