No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
myst-parser has 7.8M monthly downloads and 882 GitHub stars. Version 5.1.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of docutils, jinja2 and markdown-it-py. It is used by 206 tracked packages, including myst-nb, sphinx-substitution-extensions and sybil-extras.
GitHub topics include markdown-parser, docutils and sphinx.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
64
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
48 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,823,097
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
7,823,097
Stars
882
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
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
245,589
Month daily avg
260,770
Momentum
-5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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 License
•
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
54 days ago
Total releases
70
Releases/year
11.0
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
64
Monthly downloads
7,823,097
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
94
Issue Burden
218.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
68.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.8%
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
101.8K
Windows
5.2K
macOS
4.6K
Python Versions
3.12
36.9%
39.2K
3.11
17.3%
18.4K
3.14
15.8%
16.9K
3.10
15.7%
16.7K
3.13
14.3%
15.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
101.4K
US
2.
DE
3.3K
DE
3.
SG
3.3K
SG
4.
IE
1.3K
IE
5.
GB
1.2K
GB
6.
NL
1.1K
NL
7.
FR
727
FR
8.
FI
613
FI
9.
CA
514
CA
10.
AU
405
AU
Dependencies
6
- docutils <0.23,>=0.20
- jinja2
- markdown-it-py ~=4.2
- mdit-py-plugins >=0.6.1,~=0.6
- pyyaml
- sphinx <10,>=8
25 optional dependencies
- beautifulsoup4[testing]
- coverage[testing]
- defusedxml[testing]
- ipython[rtd]
- linkify-it-py[linkify]
- pre-commit[code-style]
- pygments[testing-docutils]
- pygments[testing]
- pytest[testing]
- pytest[testing-docutils]
- pytest-cov[testing]
- pytest-param-files[testing]
- pytest-param-files[testing-docutils]
- pytest-regressions[testing]
- sphinx[rtd]
- sphinx-autodoc2[rtd]
- sphinx-book-theme[rtd]
- sphinx-copybutton[rtd]
- sphinx-design[rtd]
- sphinx-pyscript[rtd]
- sphinx-pytest[testing]
- sphinx-tippy[rtd]
- sphinx-togglebutton[rtd]
- sphinxext-opengraph[rtd]
- sphinxext-rediraffe[rtd]
Used By
206
- myst-nb
- sphinx-substitution-extensions
- sybil-extras
- canonical-sphinx
- benchmark-runner
- rinohtype
- sphinx-github-changelog
- gp-libs
- gp-sphinx
- cloud-governance
- runestone
- exasol-toolbox
- rosdoc2
- crate-docs-theme
- pymetamodels
- scraper-lib-rmp
- bexhoma
- sphinx-design-elements
- plone-sphinx-theme
- nbsite
- strangeworks-optimization-models
- t-doc-common
- ou-book-theme
- spl-core
- ampligraph
- kedro-sphinx-theme
- cdh-lava-core
- nlsq
- agentuniverse
- sphinx-ape
- clearbox-sure
- epythet
- technote
- plesty-sdk
- sphinxcontrib-opendataservices-jsonschema
- sphinxcontrib-opendataservices
- data-ecosystem-services
- argobeast
- algomancy
- cemento
- hermesbaby
- cdh-dav-python
- pymrm
- vision-unlearning
- sphinxcontrib-rust
- contextmaker
- nmk-doc
- uniovi-simur-wearablepermed-ml
- aipys
- mlinsightlab
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
March 5, 2020
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.1.0
Total Releases
70
Contributors
64
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh