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)
Safe by default

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

Installation

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

pip install markdown-it-py

Basic usage

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
from markdown_it.extensions.front_matter import front_matter_plugin
from markdown_it.extensions.footnote import footnote_plugin

md = (
    MarkdownIt()
    .use(front_matter_plugin)
    .use(footnote_plugin)
    .disable('image')
    .enable('table')
)
text = ("""
---
a: 1
---

a | b
- | -
1 | 2

A footnote [^1]

[^1]: some details
""")
tokens = md.parse(text)
html_text = md.render(text)

Also you can use it from the command-line:

$ markdown-it
markdown-it-py [version 0.1.0] (interactive)
Type Ctrl-D to complete input, or Ctrl-C to exit.
>>> > **hallo** there!
...
<blockquote>
<p><strong>hallo</strong> there!</p>
</blockquote>

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.