jostack-mdparse 0.3.0

Markdown file parser and structured extraction tool

jostack-mdparse

Markdown file parser and structured extraction tool (CLI + Python API).

Installation

pip install jostack-mdparse

Quick Start

CLI

# Extract as JSON
jostack-mdparse extract README.md -f json

# Extract specific sections
jostack-mdparse extract docs/ -s "Installation,Usage" -f text

# Print table of contents
jostack-mdparse toc README.md

# Print frontmatter metadata
jostack-mdparse meta blog-post.md

Python API

from jostack_mdparse import extract

# Basic extraction
result = extract("README.md", format="json")

# Filter by heading level
result = extract("docs/guide.md", heading_level="1,2", format="text")

# Extract specific sections
result = extract("README.md", sections="Usage", strip_html=True)

Commands

Command	Description
extract	Parse Markdown and output structured data (JSON, text, HTML)
toc	Print the table of contents (heading tree)
meta	Print frontmatter metadata as JSON

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
output-dir	str	None	Directory where output files are written
format	str	"json"	Output format: json, text, html
quiet	bool	False	Suppress console logging output
heading-level	str	None	Filter by heading levels (comma-separated)
sections	str	None	Extract sections by heading text (comma-separated)
include-frontmatter	bool	True	Include YAML/TOML frontmatter in output
strip-html	bool	False	Strip inline HTML tags
include-code-blocks	bool	True	Include fenced code blocks
include-toc	bool	False	Add generated table of contents
flatten-lists	bool	False	Flatten nested lists
section-separator	str	None	Separator between sections in text output
normalize-links	bool	False	Convert relative links to absolute

Development

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

# Run tests
make test

# Run linting
make lint

# Format code
make format

License

MIT