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Executable Books

An open collaboration to create executable books with Jupyter

Executable Books

The Executable Books Project is an international collaboration to build open source tools that facilitate publishing computational narratives using the Jupyter ecosystem.

We are a community who steward:

  • Jupyter Book: Build beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material like Jupyter Notebooks.
  • MyST Markdown: An extended Markdown format designed for the future of technical communication and publication.

As well as many other tools for parsing, headless execution of Jupyter Notebooks (caching and in the browser), popular sphinx extensions (e.g. copy-button, sphinx-design, sphinx-thebe), and many scientific templates for writing journal articles and presentations.

Contribute to a Project 👩‍💻

Ask a question or show and tell the community about your project or use of MyST, or come to a monthly team meeting.

All of our projects are open source and welcome and and all contributions -- from documenting problems you run into, adding to documentation, telling people about your project and our mission, and of course contributing to the code! Please review our Code of Conduct to learn about some of the conventions we follow.

Be inspired, build a book ✨📖✨

Our Gallery of Jupyter Books has contributions from across the community. See the Jupyter Book documentation to get up and running to create your first online book, with executable, interactive content.

Learn about MyST Markdown ✍️👩‍🔬

Visit https://mystmd.org to see an interactive demo of working with MyST -- an extensible and powerful markup language for technical writing. You can use it to create books, write scientific papers, or use MyST in JupyterLab.

About the project ℹ️

Learn more about our project’s goals and strategy, see a list of core team members, and come to our next team meeting.

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  1. MyST-Parser MyST-Parser Public

    An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx

    Python 855 220

  2. markdown-it-py markdown-it-py Public

    Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed. Now in Python!

    Python 1.2k 90

  3. MyST-NB MyST-NB Public

    Parse and execute ipynb files in Sphinx

    Jupyter Notebook 229 91

  4. sphinx-book-theme sphinx-book-theme Public

    A clean book theme for scientific explanations and documentation with Sphinx

    Jupyter Notebook 483 206

  5. meta meta Public

    A community dedicated to supporting tools for technical and scientific communication and interactive computing

    154 173

Repositories

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  • github-activity Public

    Simple markdown changelogs for GitHub repositories

    executablebooks/github-activity’s past year of commit activity
    Python 53 BSD-3-Clause 14 19 2 Updated Dec 26, 2025
  • markdown-it-py Public

    Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed. Now in Python!

    executablebooks/markdown-it-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 1,193 MIT 90 33 9 Updated Dec 24, 2025
  • sphinx-book-theme Public

    A clean book theme for scientific explanations and documentation with Sphinx

    executablebooks/sphinx-book-theme’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 483 BSD-3-Clause 206 97 14 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • sphinx-external-toc Public

    A sphinx extension that allows the site-map to be defined in a single YAML file

    executablebooks/sphinx-external-toc’s past year of commit activity
    Python 34 MIT 18 16 4 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • rst-to-myst Public

    Convert ReStructuredText to MyST Markdown

    executablebooks/rst-to-myst’s past year of commit activity
    Python 69 MIT 15 12 10 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • sphinx-design Public

    A sphinx extension for designing beautiful, screen-size responsive web components.

    executablebooks/sphinx-design’s past year of commit activity
    Python 215 MIT 66 58 15 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • mdit-py-plugins Public

    Collection of core plugins for markdown-it-py

    executablebooks/mdit-py-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Python 36 MIT 36 16 9 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • MyST-Parser Public

    An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx

    executablebooks/MyST-Parser’s past year of commit activity
    Python 855 MIT 220 196 (2 issues need help) 30 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • MyST-NB Public

    Parse and execute ipynb files in Sphinx

    executablebooks/MyST-NB’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 229 BSD-3-Clause 91 139 9 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • mdurl Public

    URL utilities for markdown-it (a Python port)

    executablebooks/mdurl’s past year of commit activity
    Python 14 11 1 1 Updated Dec 15, 2025