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mistletoe

A fast, extensible and spec-compliant Markdown parser in pure Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mistletoe has 1.5M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.5.1 supports Python ~=3.5, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is used by 101 tracked packages, including weblate, consolekit and reme-ai.

GitHub topics include markdown, latex and webdev.

Downloads
Day
114.1K
Week
415.6K
Month
1.5M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
132
Issues
29
Version
1.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
63
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
52 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,470,729
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
1,470,729
Stars
1,055
Stars per 1k downloads
0.72
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
59,374
Month daily avg
49,024
Momentum
+21.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
~=3.5
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
211 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
3.5
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
36
Monthly downloads
1,470,729
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
59
 
Issue Burden
27.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
158d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 84.7K
macOS 478
Windows 266

Python Versions

3.13
79.8% 67.2K
3.12
8.1% 6.8K
3.10
4.2% 3.6K
3.14
4.2% 3.5K
3.11
3.7% 3.1K

Top Countries

1. GB GB
65.7K
2. US US
18.3K
3. AU AU
238
4. SG SG
201
5. DE DE
194
6. CN CN
144
7. RU RU
116
8. NL NL
88
9. FI FI
73
10. JP JP
56
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 26, 2017
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.5.1
Total Releases
31
Contributors
36
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
Mi Yu
Python Versions
3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
markdown lexer parser development
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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