Embed interactive Python notebooks in static web pages, powered by marimo and WebAssembly.

marimo snippets

Bring code snippets to life with marimo snippets: a single-file JavaScript utility that makes it easy to embed interactive Python notebooks in static web pages.

Highlights.

• 📝 markdown-compatible: compatible with mkdocs and other markdown preprocessors.
• 🛠️ extensible: HTML-first design makes it easy to integrate with static site generators like Sphinx
• ⚙️ configurable: configure through HTML or JavaScript
• 🦋 lightweight: just one small script

Quickstart for mkdocs users

Try locally. This repo contains an example (src/index.md) that you can try locally; install uv, then run

uv run --with mkdocs-material mkdocs serve

Link to a playground notebook.

Use the <marimo-button> HTML element to add a button that links to a marimo playground notebook, preloaded with Python code.

<div>
<marimo-button>
```python
def hello_world():
    print("Hello, World!")
```
</marimo-button>
<div>

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@marimo-team/marimo-snippets@1"></script>

This is what it looks like:

Embed an interactive notebook inline.

<marimo-iframe> replaces multiple code snippets with an inline marimo notebook, one cell per code snippet.

<div>
<marimo-iframe>
```python
import marimo as mo
```
```python
slider = mo.ui.slider(1, 10)
slider
```

```python
slider.value * "🍃"
```
</marimo-iframe>
</div>

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@marimo-team/marimo-snippets@1"></script>

This will embed an iframe with an interactive slider.

Note

You might wonder why we wrap the <marimo-button> element with an extra <div>. This is related to how different markdown preprocessors might handle the custom HTML elements. To guarantee that this approach works across most markdown tools, we need to wrap the custom elements in a block element.

Overview

marimo snippets lets you selectively convert code snippets, specifically <pre> elements, to marimo notebooks.

These notebooks run via WebAssembly, meaning the browser executes Python code (no backend required). Most packages are supported, including numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, plotly, altair, polars, duckdb, and more. Consult the pyodide documentation for a list of supported packages.

Loading the marimo snippets script

To get started, you'll need to load the marimo snippets script:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@marimo-team/marimo-snippets@1"></script>

Linking to the marimo playground

Add an "open-in-marimo" button to pre elements with <marimo-button>:

<marimo-button>
<pre>
def hello_world():
    print("Hello, World!")
</pre>
</marimo-button>

This renders the <pre> element but adds a button that opens the code in the marimo playground.

Open in an new tab

This is a demo site.

```python
a = 1
b = 2
```

This adds a button that links to a marimo playground notebook preloaded
with Python code.

<div>
<marimo-button>
```python
def hello_world():
    print("Hello, World!")
```
</marimo-button>
</div>

Using markdown

If you are using a static site generator like mkdocs, you can users code fences instead of raw <pre> elements. You may need to wrap the entire block in a <div>, and you may need to add the md_in_html extension.

Integrating with other static site generators

Because of its HTML-first design, marimo snippets works out of the box with many static site generators like mkdocs. However, marimo snippets does not work out of the box with all SSGs; for example, it does not work out of the box with Sphinx.

MDX

marimo-snippets does not play well with MDX out of the box. To embed marimo notebooks in MDX, see the marimo documentation.

Contributing

To our community: we'd love your help in developing plugins for other SSGs like Sphinx that target marimo snippets.

• If you develop a plugin, let us know and we'll link to it from our README.
• If you have questions while developing a plugin, reach out on GitHub issues.

marimo snippets is implemented as a wrapper around marimo's online playground. In some cases, when building plugins for SSGs, you may be better served by generating working with playground URLs directly, instead of using marimo-snippets. Consult the marimo docs on embedding playground notebooks to learn more.

Configuration

marimo snippets can be configured in two ways: globally, or locally for individual snippets.

Button configuration

Default button configuration:

{
  elements: ['pre'],
  title: 'Open code in an interactive playground',
  position: 'absolute',
  top: '0.5rem',
  right: '0.5rem',
  border: 'none',
  borderRadius: '4px',
  padding: '4px 8px',
  margin: '-4px 22px',
  cursor: 'pointer',
  zIndex: '10',
  filter: 'grayscale(100%)',
  icon: '<img src="https://cms.marimo.io/icons/favicon.svg" alt="icon" width="20" height="20">',
};

iframe configuration

Default iframe configuration:

{
  elements: ['pre'],
  height: '400px',
  width: '100%',
  border: '1px solid #ddd',
  borderRadius: '4px',
  margin: '1rem 0',
  showCode: 'true',
  url: 'https://marimo.app',
  paramName: 'code'
};

Global configuration

To configure snippets globally, include the following script element before loading the marimo snippets script.

<!-- Optionally configure how buttons and iframes are rendered. -->
<!-- Configuration must come _before_ the main extractor script is loaded. -->
<script type="text/x-marimo-snippets-config">
configureMarimoButtons({title: "Open in a marimo notebook"});
configureMarimoIframes({height: "400px"});
</script>

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@marimo-team/marimo-snippets@1"></script>

Per-element configuration

To configure an a per-element basis, use data attributes:

<marimo-iframe data-height="600px" data-show-code="false">
...
</marimo-iframe>