Rich Text API Data Structure and Parser

I haven’t tried strapi yet, I would like to know about how the rich text data structure looks like
Is it stored as html ?

This is what i see for contentful
https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/concepts/rich-text/

Strapi’s rich text uses markdowns:

Preview:

Markdown:
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How it is stored in DB:
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@sunnyson Is there any way to parse the rich text to json/js object natively in Strapi? There are obviously packages to parse rich text directly to html to display, but I’d like to intercept the content before rendering it.

Similar to Contentful handles it, see under the header " Customized rendering": Rendering Contentful Rich Text with Javascript | Contentful for instance.