mdrender 0.1.0

A streaming Markdown renderer for your terminal, great to render the output of LLM tools

mdrender

A streaming Markdown renderer for your terminal, great to render the output of LLM tools. It reads from stdin and prints formatted Markdown in real time, buffering blocks (like code fences, tables, lists) so they render properly.

Features

• Handles streamed input line-by-line
• Supports headers, lists, nested lists
• Syntax-highlighted code fences
• Tables, blockquotes, inline styles

Installation

pip install mdrender

Usage

Send markdown content via stdin

cat file.md | mdrender

Of course, the main goal is to able to render streaming input. For example, to render the live output produced by a LLM chat:

llm 'generate a dummy markdown' | mdrender

You can simulate streaming with the following bash one-liner:

cat test.md | while IFS= read -r line; do for (( i=0; i<${#line}; i++ )); do echo -n "${line:$i:1}" && sleep 0.001; done; echo; done | mdrender

I actually use that to test the tool while developing (with the test file at mdrender/test.md)