MarkItDown becomes Microsoft's most-starred GitHub repo with 196k stars, overtaking VS Code
SaleemaAmershi · x · 2026-11-15
MarkItDown, Microsoft's Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown, is now Microsoft's most-starred open-source repository on GitHub with 196k stars and 14.8k forks, surpassing VS Code (195k) and TypeScript (112k). MIT-licensed and popular for feeding documents to LLMs; the team notes users should sanitize inputs and call the narrowest convert functions in untrusted environments.
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