# Quickstart

URL: /docs/get-started/quickstart/
Section: get-started
Tags: quickstart, tutorial

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Quickstart Parse Markdown to a typed AST and render to HTML in 2 minutes. Step 1: Parse Markdown from patitas import parse source = """ # Welcome This is **bold** and *italic* text. - Item one - Item two """ doc = parse(source) Step 2: Explore the AST # doc is a tuple of Block nodes print(len(doc)) # 3 (Heading, Paragraph, List) # Access the heading heading = doc[0] print(heading.level) # 1 print(heading.children) # [Text("Welcome")] # Access the paragraph para = doc[1] print(para.children) # [Text, Strong, Text, Emphasis, Text] Step 3: Render to HTML from patitas import render html = render(doc, source=source) print(html) Output: <h1>Welcome</h1> <p>This is <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text.</p> <ul> <li>Item one</li> <li>Item two</li> </ul> Step 4: All-in-One For simple use cases, use the Markdown class: from patitas import Markdown md = Markdown() html = md("# Hello **World**") print(html) # <h1>Hello <strong>World</strong></h1> Next Steps [Syntax Guide] — Learn all Markdown syntax API Reference — Full API documentation Architecture — How the parser works

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- Word Count: 165
- Reading Time: 1 minutes