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marko

A markdown parser with high extensibility.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

marko has 5.9M monthly downloads and 461 GitHub stars. Version 2.2.3 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2018.

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

It is used by 80 tracked packages, including frictionless, data-designer-engine and django-spire.

GitHub topics include markdown, commonmark and parser.

Downloads
Day
195.7K
Week
1.4M
Month
5.9M
Stars
461
Forks
54
Issues
2
Version
2.2.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
54
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,916,073
• 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
5,916,073
Stars
461
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
197,176
Month daily avg
197,202
Momentum
+-0.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
40 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
5.8
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
26
Monthly downloads
5,916,073
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
46
 
Issue Burden
4.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
48.1%
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 130.2K
Windows 8.1K
macOS 6.2K

Python Versions

3.12
48.7% 66.4K
3.13
15.4% 21.0K
3.11
15.4% 21.0K
3.10
15.4% 21.0K
3.14
5.1% 7.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
125.1K
2. DE DE
3.0K
3. IN IN
1.8K
4. NL NL
1.6K
5. IE IE
1.5K
6. KR KR
1.4K
7. SG SG
1.3K
8. GB GB
977
9. ID ID
837
10. CA CA
657
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 16, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.2.3
Total Releases
46
Contributors
26
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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