mity/md4c

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1432 stars · 209 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MD4C is a fast, CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser written in C with a SAX-like push/callback API. It is implemented in a single source file with no dependencies and includes an optional Markdown-to-HTML converter.

Use cases

• parse markdown documents in C
• convert markdown to html
• embed a commonmark parser in an application
• render markdown in a text editor or viewer
• parse markdown with extensions like tables and strikethrough

When to choose

• you need a fast, dependency-free C markdown parser
• you want CommonMark 0.31 compliance
• you need a callback-based API to render markdown into custom formats
• you want to embed markdown parsing in a larger C/C++ project

When to avoid

• you need a high-level markdown library in a scripting language
• you require extensive non-CommonMark extensions beyond what MD4C supports
• you want a full markdown editor or rendering application out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser parsers documentation web-development cross-platform windows markdown commonmark sax-like c-library html-conversion linux macos

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