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Scrapy documentation quick start guide
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This file provides a quick guide on how to compile the Scrapy documentation.


Set up the environment
----------------------

To compile the documentation you need the Sphinx Python library. To install it
and all its dependencies, run the following command from this directory::

    pip install -r requirements.txt


Compile the documentation
-------------------------

To compile the documentation (to classic HTML output), run the following
command from this directory::

    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 clean up all generated documentation files and start from scratch, run::

    make clean

Keep in mind that this command won't touch any documentation source files.


Recreating documentation on the fly
-----------------------------------

You can recreate the documentation automatically when you make changes. Install
watchdog (``pip install watchdog``) and then run::

    make watch

Alternative method using tox
----------------------------

To compile the documentation to HTML, run the following command::

    tox -e docs

Documentation will be generated (in HTML format) inside the ``.tox/docs/tmp/html`` dir.