microsoft/markitdown

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

18

Human commits, 90 days

108

Human commits, 365 days

124

Bot share of commits, 365 days

2%

Last commit

Oct 4, 2026 (11 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 4, 2026 (11 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

57

Last release

Sep 21, 2026 (23 days ago)

Median PR merge time

under an hour

Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 64% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

124 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

6

Authors for 80% of commits

36

Contributors

132

Top committers

• afourney: 32% of commits
• hanhan761: 5% of commits
• kevin9327: 5% of commits
• lesyk: 4% of commits
• pony-maggie: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Dec 18, 2024 to Jan 9, 2025: about 13.2k more stars than usual, peak 2.9k in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Feb 14, 2025 to Feb 23, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 415 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 21, 2025 to Mar 22, 2025: about 406 more stars than usual, peak 377 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 5, 2025 to Apr 16, 2025: about 6.1k more stars than usual, peak 1.7k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 19, 2025 to May 2, 2025: about 5.3k more stars than usual, peak 929 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 13, 2025 to Jul 28, 2025: about 8.5k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 14, 2025 to Sep 25, 2025: about 6k more stars than usual, peak 1.6k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 13, 2025 to Oct 15, 2025: about 426 more stars than usual, peak 293 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 3, 2025 to Dec 4, 2025: about 243 more stars than usual, peak 250 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 28, 2026 to Mar 4, 2026: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 782 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 20, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 367 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 8, 2026 to May 8, 2026: about 26.1k more stars than usual, peak 2.9k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 27, 2026 to Jun 23, 2026: about 27.3k more stars than usual, peak 3.4k in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 6, 2026 to Sep 19, 2026: about 4.5k more stars than usual, peak 1.8k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
• 29 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/markitdown