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+======================================
+Scrapy documentation quick start guide
+======================================
+
+This file provides a quick guide on how to compile the Scrapy documentation.
+
+
+Setup the environment
+---------------------
+
+To compile the documentation you need the following Python libraries:
+
+ * Sphinx
+ * docutils
+ * jinja
+
+If you have setuptools available the following command will install all of them
+(since Sphinx requires both docutils and jinja)::
+
+    easy_install Sphinx
+
+
+Compile the documentation
+-------------------------
+
+To compile the documentation (to classic HTML output) run the following command
+from this dir::
+
+    make html
+
+Documentation will be generated (in HTML format) inside the ``build/html`` dir.
+
+
+View the documentation
+----------------------
+
+To view the documentation run the following command::
+
+    make htmlview
+
+This command will fire up your default browser and open the main page of your
+(previously generated) HTML documentation.
+
+
+Start over
+----------
+
+To cleanup all generated documentation files and start from scratch run::
+
+    make clean
+
+Keep in mind that this command won't touch any documentation source files.
+
+