Markdown parser done right.

• Follows the CommonMark spec for baseline parsing
• Configurable syntax: you can add new rules and even replace existing ones.
• Pluggable: Adds syntax extensions to extend the parser (see the plugin list).
• High speed (see our benchmarking tests)
• Easy to configure for security
• Member of Google's Assured Open Source Software

This is a Python port of markdown-it, and some of its associated plugins. For more details see: https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io.

For details on markdown-it itself, see:

• The Live demo
• The markdown-it README

See also: markdown-it-pyrs for an experimental Rust binding, for even more speed!

pip install markdown-it-py[plugins]

or with extras

pip install markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]

conda install -c conda-forge markdown-it-py

or with extras

conda install -c conda-forge markdown-it-py linkify-it-py mdit-py-plugins

Render markdown to HTML with markdown-it-py and a custom configuration with and without plugins and features:

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt from mdit_py_plugins.front_matter import front_matter_plugin from mdit_py_plugins.footnote import footnote_plugin md = ( MarkdownIt('commonmark', {'breaks':True,'html':True}) .use(front_matter_plugin) .use(footnote_plugin) .enable('table') ) text = (""" --- a: 1 ---  a | b - | - 1 | 2  A footnote [^1]  [^1]: some details """) tokens = md.parse(text) html_text = md.render(text) ## To export the html to a file, uncomment the lines below: # from pathlib import Path # Path("output.html").write_text(html_text)

Render markdown to HTML with markdown-it-py from the command-line:

usage: markdown-it [-h] [-v] [filenames [filenames ...]] Parse one or more markdown files, convert each to HTML, and print to stdout positional arguments:  filenames specify an optional list of files to convert optional arguments:  -h, --help show this help message and exit  -v, --version show program's version number and exit Interactive:  $ markdown-it  markdown-it-py [version 0.0.0] (interactive)  Type Ctrl-D to complete input, or Ctrl-C to exit.  >>> # Example  ... > markdown *input*  ...  <h1>Example</h1>  <blockquote>  <p>markdown <em>input</em></p>  </blockquote> Batch:  $ markdown-it README.md README.footer.md > index.html 

Big thanks to the authors of markdown-it:

• Alex Kocharin github/rlidwka
• Vitaly Puzrin github/puzrin

Also John MacFarlane for his work on the CommonMark spec and reference implementations.