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Scrapy documentation quick start guide

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.

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