PyRank
microsoft

markitdown

Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
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markitdown has 11.4M monthly downloads and 163K GitHub stars. Version 0.1.6 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2024.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, charset-normalizer and defusedxml. It is used by 324 tracked packages, including tooluniverse, letta and markitdown-mcp.

GitHub topics include langchain, openai and autogen-extension.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (microsoft/markitdown) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
384.5K
Week
2.5M
Month
11.4M
Stars
163.3K
Forks
11.6K
Issues
379
Version
0.1.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
100
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
41 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,429,407
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
11,429,407
Stars
163,317
Stars per 1k downloads
14.29
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
363,631
Month daily avg
380,980
Momentum
-4.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
41 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
15.2
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
10,000
Monthly downloads
11,429,407
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
 
Issue Burden
2.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
86.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 546.4K
Windows 21.5K
macOS 9.6K

Python Versions

3.12
72.6% 418.0K
3.13
18.1% 104.1K
3.11
5.4% 30.8K
3.14
3.1% 17.7K
3.10
0.9% 5.1K

Top Countries

1. IN IN
360.9K
2. US US
154.3K
3. JP JP
13.2K
4. CN CN
12.7K
5. SG SG
5.0K
6. DE DE
4.9K
7. HK HK
3.3K
8. GB GB
3.1K
9. FI FI
2.2K
10. CA CA
2.1K

Dependencies

6
32 optional dependencies

Used By

324
View all 324 dependents
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 13, 2024
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.1.6
Total Releases
25
Contributors
10,000
Open PRs
453
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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