YAML Header Tools

A python package to manage yaml header in markdown document

YAML-Headers for markdown documents are described in: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block

They are used by many systems to include metadata in markdown documents.

This python package can be installed using pip, e.g.:

pip install --user .

Usage

The following example loads a yaml header from a markdown file.

from yaml_header_tools import *

header = get_header_from_file("testfile.md")

Running the tests

After installation of the package run (within the project folder):

pytest

Contributers

The original authors of this package are:

• Alexander Schlemmer
• Daniel Hornung
• Timm Fitschen

License

Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Research Group Biomedical Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen.

All files in this repository are licensed under a GNU Affero General Public License (version 3 or later).