nbformat
Library for reading and writing Jupyter Notebook format files.
Used in agent projects
20
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#46 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
21.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, nbformat
GitHub stars
313
last push Oct 6, 2026
How nbformat is used
nbformat is a dependency in 20 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #46 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use pandas (85.0%), Requests (80.0%), NumPy (75.0%).
Often used with nbformat
| pandas | 85.0% of nbformat projects · 28.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 80.0% of nbformat projects · 15.0× more than average |
| NumPy | 75.0% of nbformat projects · 19.6× more than average |
| IPython | 70.0% of nbformat projects · 269.3× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 65.0% of nbformat projects · 51.6× more than average |
| Bleach | 65.0% of nbformat projects · 343.9× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 65.0% of nbformat projects · 47.2× more than average |
| PyYAML | 65.0% of nbformat projects · 21.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list nbformat as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install nbformat |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (19), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, napjon/krisk, AndreAugusto11/XChainDataGen, nihilistau/CosySim, brandoz2255/Harvis |
Alternatives to nbformat
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
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175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
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110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
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| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
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97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |