---
title: "Liquid filters: md5"
description: Converts a string into an MD5 hash. MD5 is not considered safe anymore. Please use ['blake3'](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/blake3) instead for better security and performance.
api_name: liquid
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/md5
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/md5.md
---

# md5

```oobleck
string | md5
```

returns [string](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/basics#string)

Converts a string into an MD5 hash. MD5 is not considered safe anymore. Please use ['blake3'](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/filters/blake3) instead for better security and performance.

```liquid
{{ '' | md5 }}
```

##### Code

```
{{ '' | md5 }}
```

## Output

```html
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
```