render-engine-markdown 2026.3.1a1

Markdown Parser for Render Engine

Markdown Parser

This is a parser for the Markdown markup language. This is the default parser for render_engine pages.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name.

The underlying parser is python-markdown2.

Parser Options

These are the options that can be pulled from the page:

Option	Description
markdown_extras	A list of extensions to use. See python-markdown2 for a list of extensions.

Quickstart

import the MarkdownPageParser

Render Engine includes the parser in render_engine.parsers.markdown Alternatively, you can import directly from this path

from render_engine.parsers.markdown import MarkdownPageParser
# of from render_engine_markdown import MarkdownPageParser

class MyMarkdownPage(Page):
    Parser = MarkdownPageParser
    content_path = "path_to_your_markdown_file.md"