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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 827 208

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

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

    Python 905 79

  3. MyST-NB MyST-NB Public

    Parse and execute ipynb files in Sphinx

    Jupyter Notebook 227 90

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

    A clean book theme for scientific explanations and documentation with Sphinx

    Jupyter Notebook 470 207

  5. meta meta Public

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

    145 172

Repositories

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  • 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 33 MIT 18 16 3 Updated Jul 14, 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 206 MIT 66 54 14 Updated Jul 14, 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 470 BSD-3-Clause 207 100 17 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • rst-to-myst Public

    Convert ReStructuredText to MyST Markdown

    executablebooks/rst-to-myst’s past year of commit activity
    Python 66 MIT 14 11 9 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • mdit-py-plugins Public

    Collection of core plugins for markdown-it-py

    executablebooks/mdit-py-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Python 34 MIT 34 15 9 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • MyST-Parser Public

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

    executablebooks/MyST-Parser’s past year of commit activity
    Python 827 MIT 208 183 (2 issues need help) 26 Updated Jul 14, 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 905 MIT 79 32 8 Updated Jul 14, 2025
  • MyST-NB Public

    Parse and execute ipynb files in Sphinx

    executablebooks/MyST-NB’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 227 BSD-3-Clause 90 138 7 Updated Jul 13, 2025
  • meta Public

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

    executablebooks/meta’s past year of commit activity
    145 172 68 (1 issue needs help) 16 Updated Jul 12, 2025
  • jupyter-cache Public

    A defined interface for working with a cache of executed jupyter notebooks

    executablebooks/jupyter-cache’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 53 MIT 14 25 1 Updated Jul 7, 2025