Back to Sphinx

Sphinx Web Support

doc/usage/advanced/websupport/index.rst

9.1.01017 B
Original Source

.. _websupport:

Sphinx Web Support

.. versionadded:: 1.1

Sphinx provides a Python API to easily integrate Sphinx documentation into your web application. To learn more read the :ref:websupportquickstart.

.. _Pocoo: https://www.pocoo.org .. _sphinx-websupport-app: https://github.com/shimizukawa/sphinx-websupport-app

.. note::

Historical context: Web Support originated from the Pocoo_ community, the original creators of Sphinx, Jinja, Flask, Pygments, and more. Web Support was part of a plan to create a forum application that tied together Jinja, Flask, Sphinx, etc. The core goal behind Web Support was to enable a user editing and suggestion layer on top of documentation. While the concept has merit, the feature has seen limited adoption and development over the years. As of 2025, there are few real-world examples of its use. See sphinx-websupport-app_ for one such example.

.. toctree::

quickstart api searchadapters storagebackends