markdown-it-py

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!

Installation

PIP

pip install markdown-it-py[plugins]

or with extras

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

Conda

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

Usage

Python API Usage

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)

Command-line Usage

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

usage: markdown-it [-h] [-v] [--stdin|filenames [filenames ...]]

Parse one or more markdown files, convert each to HTML, and print to stdout

positional arguments:
  --stdin        read source Markdown file from standard input
  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

References / Thanks

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.