# Blackfriday

Go library that processes Markdown and renders it to HTML.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/blackfriday/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04
Listed since: 2026-11-04

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday
- docs: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Russ Ross
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: library
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- 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: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: Go modules

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-2-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2020-11-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5596
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 55
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 102165
- dependentPackages: 13893

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday/commits/fbbd3248e98285f5764be3c98be555a1efd3a129 (read 2026-11-04)
- maintainer: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-11-04)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-11-04)
- category: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday (read 2026-11-04)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday (read 2026-11-04)
- runtime: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- license: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-11-04)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/releases/tag/v2.1.0 (read 2026-11-04)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/releases/tag/v1.6.0 (read 2026-11-04)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday (read 2026-11-04)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/russross/blackfriday/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-04)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/proxy.golang.org/packages/github.com%2Frussross%2Fblackfriday%2Fv2 (read 2026-11-04)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/proxy.golang.org/packages/github.com%2Frussross%2Fblackfriday%2Fv2 (read 2026-11-04)

## Notes

Blackfriday is a Markdown processor written in Go. A Go program imports the package and calls it to turn Markdown text into HTML.

Russ Ross holds the copyright on the code under a simplified BSD license. The [reference documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2) is on pkg.go.dev.

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