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Implementations
Waylan Limberg edited this page Aug 7, 2014
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There are many different implementations of the markdown parser. The following is intended to assist in choosing the implementation that works best for you.
Note that this is a list of libraries which implement a markdown parser. There may be various editors, websites, command line scripts, and other tools which use any one of these implementations behind the scenes. This list does not include those tools.
| Name | Language | Output Formats | Extras? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| markdown.pl | Perl | (X)HTML | No | The original implementation. |
| MultiMarkdown | Perl | HTML, PDF, OPML, OpenDocument | Yes | A superset of Markdown. |
| text-markdown | Perl | (X)HTML | Yes | The Perl Text::Markdown CPAN module. |
| markdown | Perl 6 | (X)HTML | ? | A Perl 6 implementation of Markdown. |
| PHP Markdown | PHP | (X)HTML | No | A PHP implementation. |
| PHP Markdown Extra | PHP | (X)HTML | Yes | A superset of Markdown in PHP. |
| markdown-oo-php | PHP | (X)HTML | Yes | An object-oriented PHP library. |
| PHP-Sundown | PHP | (X)HTML | Yes | PHP Bindings to Sundown. |
| cebe/markdown | PHP | (X)HTML | Yes | A fast and highly extensible PHP implementation. |
| Python-Markdown | Python 2 & 3 | (X)HTML | Yes | A Python implementation with extensions. |
| Python-Markdown2 | Python | (X)HTML | Yes | A direct port of markdown.pl to Python. |
| Misaka | Python 2 & 3 | (X)HTML | Yes | A Python binding for Sundown. |
| python-hoedown | Python | (X)HTML | Yes | A Python binding to Hoedown. |
| Hoep | Python | (X)HTML | Yes | A Python binding to Hoedown. |
| Python-Discount | Python | (X)HTML | Yes | A Python binding to Discount. |
| BlueCloth | Ruby | (X)HTML | Yes | A Ruby binding to Discount. |
| BlueFeather | Ruby | ? | ? | A pure Ruby implementation. |
| ffi-sundown | Ruby | (X)HTML | ? | A Ruby FFI binding to Sundown. |
| kramdown | Ruby | (X)HTML, LaTeX, kramdown's superset of Markdown, PDF via Latex | Yes | A pure Ruby superset implementation. Also accepts input in HTML. |
| Maruku | Ruby | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure Ruby superset implementation. |
| RDiscount | Ruby | (X)HTML | Yes | A Ruby binding to Discount. |
| Redcarpet | Ruby | (X)HTML | Yes | A Ruby binding to Sundown. |
| Discount | C | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure C implementation with extras. |
| libpandoc | C | many (see Pandoc) | Yes | A C binding to Pandoc. |
| peg-markdown | C | (X)HTML | Yes | A C implementation using a PEG Grammar. |
| peg-multimarkdown & fork | C | (X)HTML | Yes | A C implementation of MultiMarkdown. |
| Sundown | C | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure C implementation with extensions. |
| Hoedown | C | (X)HTML | Yes | A fork of Sundown. |
| MMMarkdown | Objective-C | (X)HTML | Planned? | A pure Objective-C static library. |
| CocoaMarkdown | Objective-C | (X)HTML | No | A direct port of markdown.pl to Objective-C. |
| GHMarkdownParser | Objective-C | (X)HTML | Yes | An Objective-C binding to Discount. |
| MarkdownSharp | C# | (X)HTML | ? | A C# implementation used by Stack Overflow. |
| MoonShine | C# (.NET) | (X)HTML | Yes | A .NET binding to Sundown. |
| Sundown.net | C# (.NET) | (X)HTML | Yes | A .NET binding to Sundown. |
| MarkdownDeep | C# and Javascript | HTML | Yes | Open-source implementation of Markdown for C# and Javascript |
| Sundown HS | Haskell | (X)HTML | Yes | A Haskell binding to Sundown. |
| Pandoc | Haskell | (X)HTML, Slidy, Slideous, S5, DZSlides, docx, ODT, OpenDocument, EPUB, DocBook, GNU TexInfo, Groff man pages, LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides, PDF via LaTeX, Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, MediaWiki markup, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile | Yes | A superset Haskell implementation. Also accepts input in reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, or LaTeX. |
| node-discount | Node.js | (X)HTML | Yes | Node.js bindings to Discount. |
| RoboSkirt | Node.js | (X)HTML | Yes | Node.js bindings to Sundown. |
| node-markdown | Node.js | (X)HTML | No | Node.js wrapper for Showdown. |
| node-multimarkdown | Node.js | (X)HTML | Yes | Node.js wrapper for Multimarkdown. |
| texts.js | Node.js/JavaScript | HTML5, XeLaTeX and Pandoc JSON | ? | A Markdown subset only. |
| Showdown | JavaScript | (X)HTML | No | A pure JavaScript implementation. |
| markdown-js | JavaScript | (X)HTML | No | A pure JavaScript implementation. |
| marked | JavaScript | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure JavaScript implementation. |
| MarkdownJ | Java | (X)HTML | No | A pure Java implementation. |
| markdown4j | Java | (X)HTML | Yes | A MarkdownJ fork with extensions. |
| pegdown | Java | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure Java PEG Grammar. |
| MarkdownPapers | Java | AST | ? | A JAVACC grammar definition that produces an abstract syntax tree (AST). |
| Txtmark | Java | (X)HTML | Yes | A pure Java implementation. |
| markdown.lua | Lua | (X)HTML | ? | A pure Lua implementation. |
| Lunamark | Lua | HTML, dzslides, Docbook, ConTeXt, LaTeX, and Groff man | Yes | A PEG grammar in Lua. |
| lua-discount | Lua | (X)HTML | Yes | Lua bindings to Discount. |
| Knockoff | Scala | (X)HTML | No? | A pure Scala implementation. |
| Actuarius | Scala | (X)HTML | No? | A pure Scala implementation. |
| Laika | Scala | (X)HTML | No | A pure Scala implementation. Also supports reStructuredText |
| Lowdown | Chicken Scheme | SXML | No? | A pure Chicken Sceme implementation. |
| markdown.bash | Bash | (X)HTML | No | A UNIX bash script using mostly Sed. |
| markdown-clj | Clojure | (X)HTML | ? | Compiles to both Clojure and ClojureScript. |
| md2html.awk | Awk | (X)HTML | ? | An Awk implementation. |
| Blackfriday | Go | HTML & LaTeX | No | A pure Go implementation. |
| Goskirt | Go | (X)HTML | Yes | Go bindings to Sundown. |
| upskirt.go | Go | (X)HTML | Yes | Simplified Go bindings to Sundown. |
| OMD | OCaml | HTML, Markdown | Yes | A pure OCaml implementation. |