Running pandoc as a web server

If you rename (or symlink) the pandoc executable to pandoc-server, or if you call pandoc with server as the first argument, it will start up a web server with a JSON API. This server exposes most of the conversion functionality of pandoc. For full documentation, see the pandoc-server man page.

If you rename (or symlink) the pandoc executable to pandoc-server.cgi, it will function as a CGI program exposing the same API as pandoc-server.

pandoc-server is designed to be maximally secure; it uses Haskell’s type system to provide strong guarantees that no I/O will be performed on the server during pandoc conversions.