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Top 23 Python Markdown Projects
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Each one is a few lines. MarkItDown, from Microsoft:
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Read the licenses before you ship any of them. Marker's README says the code is Apache 2.0 and that the model weights use "a modified AI Pubs Open Rail-M license (free for research, personal use, and startups under $5M funding/revenue)", with a commercial route beyond that through the vendor. Docling's code is MIT, and its README sends you to each model's own license. MarkItDown is MIT.
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Terminal Web (py_terminal) is a powerful terminal-based UI web project utilizing Python and the Rich library for beautiful terminal output combined with advanced command execution capabilities.
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Two open source dramas in one week? Get the popcorn. From one of the links[0]:
> I do not see him as qualified to keep this project maintainership and if I had the choice, would I remove him.
…where “him” is Tom Christie, aka lovelydinosaur, the original author from what I can tell, and the copyright holder from the license file.
I don’t know what’s going on, but if someone contributing to one of my projects, that I wrote, started a public conversation about how to remove me, my public response might appear as that person disappearing from the project.
Sure, feel free to follow the license and fork the project. Make it clear that it’s a fork, though. It feels misleading to describe it as a continuation of the existing project.
[0] https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/4088
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Recipes
Application for managing recipes, planning meals, building shopping lists and much much more!
Project mention: Tandoor Recipes: 170 title matches and a small sample to read carefully | dev.to | 2026-10-08[1] Tandoor Recipes. https://tandoor.dev/ [2] Tandoor Recipes source repository. https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes [3] ZoomEye. https://www.zoomeye.ai/
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Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language "that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown".
The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST. It literally has directives, roles, structural semantics, etc. It just doesn't have the unlearnable syntax of RST and a so-called "governance" of [docutils](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8039) (the de facto rST parser).
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https://jupytext.org/ may be what you're looking for! It saves Notebook files as Python/text files, and can open them as Notebooks. I've mostly used it for improved version control and easier file inspection, but they recently started advertising the agent use case on their website.
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basic-memory
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Project mention: Best MCP Memory Servers for Teams in 2026: Context Cloud vs mem0 vs Basic Memory vs claude-mem vs MemPalace | dev.to | 2026-05-28Basic Memory is the simplest option and that's its strength. It stores knowledge as markdown files that you can read, edit, and version control yourself. No database, no cloud, no dependencies beyond the CLI.
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llm-wiki-agent
A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persistent interlinked wiki. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI. No API key needed.
Project mention: Show HN: Claude Soul – cross-session learning engine for Claude Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-18I'm really interested in trying this out. Currently, I'm using the standard Obsidian MD format for long-term memory (https://github.com/SamurAIGPT/llm-wiki-agent) and asking the agent to access the wiki at the start of the task and then record useful information at the end
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MarkdownEditing
Powerful Markdown package for Sublime Text with better syntax understanding and good color schemes.
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Project mention: Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-30
I managed to find some screenshot in the github readme:
https://github.com/olivierkes/manuskript#manuskript
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Oh, I have all the thoughts about this.
I've been experimenting with this for well before Obsidian existed by using what is probably the best proto-Obsidian -- https://zim-wiki.org
And my gut is, while they can be very useful and it can be rewarding to get a good workflow for yourself, we will not see some sort of revolutionary improvement across humanity strongly attributable to these things, and I think I have a solid why we won't even if it seems like we should.
Roughly, they're attractive looking to our brains because they work just like them, nets and nodes and connections and such -- but ultimately, our brains are actually much better at that exact type of work. These tools can help, but they pale in comparison to human brains.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Markdown projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | markitdown | 188,425 |
| 2 | docling | 68,540 |
| 3 | rich | 57,473 |
| 4 | Scrapegraph-ai | 31,500 |
| 5 | MkDocs | 22,497 |
| 6 | Recipes | 8,647 |
| 7 | sphinx | 8,051 |
| 8 | jupytext | 7,255 |
| 9 | Python-Markdown | 4,253 |
| 10 | basic-memory | 4,114 |
| 11 | rich-cli | 3,730 |
| 12 | llm-wiki-agent | 3,599 |
| 13 | MarkdownEditing | 3,331 |
| 14 | frogmouth | 3,236 |
| 15 | Mistune | 3,076 |
| 16 | readme-ai | 2,997 |
| 17 | markdown2 | 2,824 |
| 18 | manuskript | 2,448 |
| 19 | lookatme | 2,331 |
| 20 | zim-desktop-wiki | 2,206 |
| 21 | html2text | 2,175 |
| 22 | retext | 2,062 |
| 23 | terminal_markdown_viewer | 1,884 |
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