# GuitarGate

> GuitarGate is a guitar education platform: structured courses and lessons,
> a community song feed, masterclasses, and tools for guitarists. This file
> tells AI agents and crawlers how to fetch clean Markdown versions of our
> pages instead of parsing HTML.

## How to get Markdown versions of pages

Any content page (node) and most views pages can be retrieved as Markdown
(Content-Type: text/markdown) using any of these patterns:

1. Append `.md` to the URL path (works for path aliases and canonical routes):
   - https://www.guitargate.com/faq.md
   - https://www.guitargate.com/node/844.md
2. Prefix the path with `/markdownify`:
   - https://www.guitargate.com/markdownify/node/844
3. Add the `_format=markdown` query parameter:
   - https://www.guitargate.com/node/844?_format=markdown
4. Send an `Accept: text/markdown` request header to the normal URL.

Responses omit headers, footers, and navigation — only the page content,
converted to Markdown.

## Discovering URLs

- Fetch https://www.guitargate.com/sitemap.xml, then append `.md` to any URL in it.
- Access control matches the HTML site: member-only content returns 403 unless
  you are authenticated with an account that has access.

## Key content

- [Frequently Asked Questions](/faq.md): support and account answers
- [Level 1 - Welcome To Guitargate](/courses/level-1-welcome-guitargate.md): first free course
- [Community song feed](/songs/my-feed.md): recent public song posts (no login
  needed; logged-in members see a personalized version of this page)

## What is NOT available as Markdown

A few listing pages are rendered by custom controllers and are HTML-only:
`/courses` (course catalog) and `/dashboard` (member dashboard). Use the
sitemap to reach individual course, lesson, song, and masterclass pages —
those all have Markdown versions.