# Asciidoctor

Ruby text processor that converts AsciiDoc source into HTML 5, DocBook 5, man pages and other output formats.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/asciidoctor/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://asciidoctor.org
- repository: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor
- docs: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/
- x: https://twitter.com/asciidoctor

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Dan Allen, Sarah White, Ryan Waldron, and the individual contributors
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2012
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: ruby
- language: ruby
- runtime: ruby
- runtimeMin: ruby 2.3
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: gem install, Bundler, Linux distribution packages, Homebrew or MacPorts, or the Docker image

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-10-24

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5224
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 190
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 34
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 6586
- dependentPackages: 146

### Sources

- urls: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/asciidoctor/asciidoctor (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://asciidoctor.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/install/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/asciidoctor.json (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/asciidoctor/asciidoctor (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-23)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/asciidoctor (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/asciidoctor (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Asciidoctor is the Ruby processor for AsciiDoc, the markup language. It reads AsciiDoc source and converts it to output formats such as HTML 5, DocBook 5 and man pages. PDF and EPUB 3 output come from separate converter gems. It is the successor to AsciiDoc.py.

Asciidoctor is installed as a gem from RubyGems, through Bundler, a Linux distribution package, Homebrew or MacPorts, or the Docker image named on the [install page](https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor/latest/install/). The same language is processed outside Ruby by Asciidoctor.js, for JavaScript, and AsciidoctorJ, for the JVM. Both are separate projects.

## Worth knowing

Asciidoctor itself requires a Ruby implementation: CRuby, JRuby or TruffleRuby, in the version ranges the homepage lists.

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