diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7ffbaed..ff7e1d4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [Unreleased](https://github.com/zooniverse/markdownz/tree/master) (2023-09-17)
+Export the HTML utilities separately from the React components.
+```js
+import { utils } from 'markdownz';
+
+const content = `
+# A test document
+
+This is a test [with a link](https://www.zooniverse.org).
+`
+const html = utils.getHTML({ content });
+```
+
 ## [v8.0.7](https://github.com/zooniverse/markdownz/tree/v8.0.7) (2023-08-29)
 
 * Bump @babel/cli from 7.22.5 to 7.22.6 by @dependabot in https://github.com/zooniverse/markdownz/pull/169
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 10d3328..25c9412 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ import { MarkdownHelp } from 'markdownz'
 <MarkdownHelp talk={true} title={<h1>Guide to Markdown</h1>} />
 ```
 
+Utilities:
+
+```js
+import { utils } from 'markdownz';
+
+const content = `
+# A test document
+
+This is a test [with a link](https://www.zooniverse.org).
+`
+const html = utils.getHTML({ content });
+```
+
 ## Supported Properties
 
 ### Viewer
diff --git a/src/components/markdown.jsx b/src/components/markdown.jsx
index eb4b1ba..7343313 100644
--- a/src/components/markdown.jsx
+++ b/src/components/markdown.jsx
@@ -1,57 +1,8 @@
-import React from 'react';
-import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
-import MarkdownItContainer from 'markdown-it-container';
-import markdownEmoji from 'markdown-it-emoji';
-import markdownSub from 'markdown-it-sub';
-import markdownSup from 'markdown-it-sup';
-import markdownFootnote from 'markdown-it-footnote';
-import markdownImsize from 'markdown-it-imsize';
-import markdownVideo from 'markdown-it-video';
-import markdownTableOfContents from 'markdown-it-table-of-contents';
-import markdownAnchor from 'markdown-it-anchor';
-import twemoji from '@twemoji/api';
-import html5Embed from 'markdown-it-html5-embed';
+import { PureComponent } from 'react';
 
+import * as utils from '../lib/utils';
 
-import replaceSymbols from '../lib/default-transformer';
-import relNofollow from '../lib/links-rel-nofollow';
-import markdownNewTab from '../lib/links-in-new-tabs';
-
-function markdownIt() {
-  return new MarkdownIt({ linkify: true, breaks: true })
-    .use(markdownEmoji)
-    .use(markdownSub)
-    .use(markdownSup)
-    .use(markdownFootnote)
-    .use(markdownImsize)
-    .use(markdownNewTab)
-    .use(markdownVideo)
-    .use(markdownAnchor)
-    .use(markdownTableOfContents)
-    .use(MarkdownItContainer, 'partners')
-    .use(MarkdownItContainer, 'attribution')
-    .use(html5Embed, {});
-}
-
-export default class Markdown extends React.Component {
-
-  markdownify(input) {
-    Markdown.counter += 1;
-    const id = this.props.idPrefix || (Date.now().toString(16) + Markdown.counter);
-    const env = { docId: id };
-    if (this.props && this.props.inline) {
-      return this.renderer().renderInline(input, env);
-    }
-
-    return this.renderer().render(input, env);
-  }
-
-  renderer() {
-    if (this.props && this.props.relNofollow) {
-      return markdownIt().use(relNofollow);
-    }
-    return markdownIt();
-  }
+export default class Markdown extends PureComponent {
 
   captureFootnoteLinks() {
     const backrefs = '.footnote-ref > a, .footnote-backref';
@@ -70,24 +21,12 @@ export default class Markdown extends React.Component {
   }
 
   getHtml() {
-    const content = this.props.children || this.props.content;
-
-    try {
-      const { project, baseURI } = this.props;
-
-      if (typeof this.props.transform === 'function') {
-        const transformed = this.props.transform(content, { project, baseURI });
-        return this.emojify(this.markdownify(transformed));
-      }
-
-      return this.emojify(this.markdownify(content));
-    } catch (e) {
-      return content;
-    }
-  }
-
-  emojify(input) {
-    return twemoji.parse(input);
+    const { children, ...props } = this.props;
+    const content = children || this.props.content;
+    return utils.getHtml({
+      ...props,
+      content
+    });
   }
 
   render() {
@@ -108,7 +47,6 @@ Markdown.defaultProps = {
   tag: 'div',
   content: '',
   inline: false,
-  transform: replaceSymbols,
   project: null,
   baseURI: null,
   className: '',
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 2482c35..62db60d 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 export { default as Markdown } from './components/markdown';
 export { default as MarkdownEditor } from './components/markdown-editor';
 export { default as MarkdownHelp } from './components/markdown-help';
+export * as utils from './lib/utils';
diff --git a/src/lib/utils.js b/src/lib/utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7551503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+import MarkdownItContainer from 'markdown-it-container';
+import markdownEmoji from 'markdown-it-emoji';
+import markdownSub from 'markdown-it-sub';
+import markdownSup from 'markdown-it-sup';
+import markdownFootnote from 'markdown-it-footnote';
+import markdownImsize from 'markdown-it-imsize';
+import markdownVideo from 'markdown-it-video';
+import markdownTableOfContents from 'markdown-it-table-of-contents';
+import markdownAnchor from 'markdown-it-anchor';
+import html5Embed from 'markdown-it-html5-embed';
+import twemoji from '@twemoji/api';
+
+import markdownNewTab from '../lib/links-in-new-tabs';
+import relNofollow from '../lib/links-rel-nofollow';
+import replaceSymbols from '../lib/default-transformer';
+
+let counter = 0;
+
+export function emojify(input) {
+  return twemoji.parse(input);
+}
+
+export function markdownz() {
+  return new MarkdownIt({ linkify: true, breaks: true })
+    .use(markdownEmoji)
+    .use(markdownSub)
+    .use(markdownSup)
+    .use(markdownFootnote)
+    .use(markdownImsize)
+    .use(markdownNewTab)
+    .use(markdownVideo)
+    .use(markdownAnchor)
+    .use(markdownTableOfContents)
+    .use(MarkdownItContainer, 'partners')
+    .use(MarkdownItContainer, 'attribution')
+    .use(html5Embed, {});
+}
+
+const baseRenderer = markdownz();
+const noFollowRenderer = markdownz().use(relNofollow);
+
+export function renderer({ relNoFollow = false }) {
+  return relNoFollow ? noFollowRenderer : baseRenderer;
+}
+
+export function markdownify({
+  idPrefix,
+  inline = false,
+  input,
+  relNoFollow = false
+}) {
+  counter += 1;
+  const id = idPrefix || (Date.now().toString(16) + counter);
+  const env = { docId: id };
+  if (inline) {
+    return renderer({ relNoFollow }).renderInline(input, env);
+  }
+
+  return renderer({ relNoFollow }).render(input, env);
+}
+
+export function getHtml({
+  baseURI,
+  content,
+  idPrefix,
+  inline = false,
+  project,
+  relNoFollow = false,
+  transform = replaceSymbols
+}) {
+  let input = content;
+  try {
+    if (typeof transform === 'function') {
+      input = transform(content, { project, baseURI });
+    }
+
+    const html = markdownify({ idPrefix, inline, input, relNoFollow });
+    return emojify(html);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return content;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/markdown-test.jsx b/test/markdown-test.jsx
index 93b893d..48c1f03 100644
--- a/test/markdown-test.jsx
+++ b/test/markdown-test.jsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import TestUtils from 'react-dom/test-utils';
 import { Markdown } from '../src/index';
+import * as utils from '../src/lib/utils';
 
 describe('Markdown', () => {
   let markdown;
@@ -20,55 +21,11 @@ describe('Markdown', () => {
       baseURI: null,
       project: null,
       relNofollow: false,
-      transform: Markdown.defaultProps.transform,
       className: '',
       idPrefix: null
     });
   });
 
-  describe('#markdownify', () => {
-    it('renders markdown', () => {
-      const md = markdown.markdownify('# test header');
-      expect(md).to.equal('<h1 id="test-header" tabindex="-1">test header</h1>\n');
-    });
-
-    it('opens links in a new tab when prefixed by +tab+', () => {
-      const md = markdown.markdownify('[A link](+tab+http://www.google.com)');
-      expect(md).to.equal('<p><a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">A link</a></p>\n');
-    });
-  });
-
-  describe('#getHtml', () => {
-    const errorTransform = () => {
-      throw new Error('fail');
-    };
-
-    it('returns the formatted html', () => {
-      let md = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(React.createElement(Markdown, { className: 'MyComponent' }, 'Test text'));
-
-      let html = md.getHtml();
-      expect(html).to.equal('<p>Test text</p>\n');
-    });
-
-    it('renders bare child content on error', () => {
-      const md = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(React.createElement(Markdown, { className: 'MyComponent', transform: errorTransform }, 'Test text'));
-      const html = md.getHtml();
-      expect(html).to.equal('Test text');
-    });
-  });
-
-  describe('#renderer', () => {
-    it('uses relNofollow when passed as a prop', () => {
-      const md = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(React.createElement(Markdown, { className: 'MyComponent', relNofollow: true }, '[Test](link)'));
-      expect(md.getHtml()).to.equal('<p><a href="link" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Test</a></p>\n');
-    });
-
-    it('doesn\'t use relNofollow when not passed as a prop', () => {
-      const md = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(React.createElement(Markdown, { className: 'MyComponent', relNofollow: false }, '[Test](link)'));
-      expect(md.getHtml()).to.equal('<p><a href="link">Test</a></p>\n');
-    });
-  });
-
   describe('#render', () => {
     let editor;
     let md;
@@ -89,7 +46,7 @@ describe('Markdown', () => {
     });
 
     it('calls getHtml in render', () => {
-      const getHtmlSpy = spy.on(md, 'getHtml');
+      const getHtmlSpy = spy.on(utils, 'getHtml');
       md.render();
       expect(getHtmlSpy).to.have.been.called();
     });
diff --git a/test/utils-test.jsx b/test/utils-test.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a87f50c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/utils-test.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import TestUtils from 'react-dom/test-utils';
+import * as utils from '../src/lib/utils';
+
+describe('Utilities', () => {
+  describe('#markdownify', () => {
+    it('renders markdown', () => {
+      const md = utils.markdownify({ input: '# test header' });
+      expect(md).to.equal('<h1 id="test-header" tabindex="-1">test header</h1>\n');
+    });
+
+    it('opens links in a new tab when prefixed by +tab+', () => {
+      const md = utils.markdownify({ input: '[A link](+tab+http://www.google.com)' });
+      expect(md).to.equal('<p><a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow noreferrer">A link</a></p>\n');
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('#getHtml', () => {
+    const errorTransform = () => {
+      throw new Error('fail');
+    };
+
+    it('returns the formatted html', () => {
+      let html = utils.getHtml({ content: 'Test text' });
+      expect(html).to.equal('<p>Test text</p>\n');
+    });
+
+    it('renders bare child content on error', () => {
+      const html = utils.getHtml({ content: 'Test text', transform: errorTransform });
+      expect(html).to.equal('Test text');
+    });
+
+    it('uses relNofollow when passed as a prop', () => {
+      expect(utils.getHtml({ content: '[Test](link)', relNoFollow: true })).to.equal('<p><a href="link" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Test</a></p>\n');
+    });
+
+    it('doesn\'t use relNofollow when not passed as a prop', () => {
+      expect(utils.getHtml({ content: '[Test](link)' })).to.equal('<p><a href="link">Test</a></p>\n');
+    });
+  });
+});