Product Features

Automate the deployment of your technical documentation by building your project with every change to your documentation source. Maintain your documentation without managing extra services. Building, hosting, CDN, authentication, and search are all included.

Start automating your documentation with Read the Docs.

Manage software documentation using all of the same tools and workflow you’re already using for development. Write docs with your favorite editor, commit changes using version control, and preview changes during review.

Terminal window showing commands to commit documentation changes

Give your users documentation that won't go out of date. Build multiple versions from commits, branches, or tags in your repository.

Integrate with localization tools to translate your documentation in multiple languages.

Use the same version control system that you use for development to retain change history for your documentation.

Integrate with tools like Sphinx, MkDocs, and Jupyter Book, and track changes with Git. Use the tools that work best for your project.

Write reStructuredText with Sphinx
Or write Markdown with Sphinx and MyST
Add reference docs from Python code
Document a RESTful API with OpenAPI tools
Include a Jupyter Notebook in your docs

Learn more about docs as code

Your documentation is rebuilt whenever a change is detected in your repository, so every version of your documentation is always up to date.

Whether your project is Python or Node.js, your project controls what dependencies to install and how to generate your documentation.

Customize your documentation build to fit your needs. Install your own dependencies and run custom commands.

Set up your project and track your project's configuration from your repository.

Output PDF and EPUB formats for your documentation, for offline and cross-device viewing.

Read the Docs integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket and can clone and build documentation from any hosted repository. You can also manually connect to any repository provider that supports Git.

Clone from private repositories hosted on GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, or connect another provider by manually connecting using a provided key.

Rebuild your documentation and preview changes in every pull request. Share changes easily and help catch errors before shipping documentaiton updates.

Supported on GitHub and GitLab repositories.

Read the Docs pull request review checks in a GitHub pull request

Learn more about reader features

Everything you need to deliver documentation to your users and customers is already included with your project. You can easily deploy multiple versions of your documentation, with everything from authentication to cross-project search, without configuring any additional services.

Host public documentation for users

Share documentation internally using teams

Grant access using sharing tokens

Control who has access to your documentation with integrated authentation and sharing tokens.

Use your own custom domain for your hosted documentation, with SSL automatically configured.

Help your users find what the need with integrated search across all your projects and versions.

Automate your documentation deployments with Read the Docs.

Additional features

Automatically increment your documentation versions, and rebuild on new version releases.

Subprojects can share a search index and a custom domain, and can help logically group sets of multiple projects.

Use environment variables to provide secrets to your project's build commands.

Avoid broken links by adding redirects for pages that have been moved or deleted.

Track search query and documentation page traffic data with no additional services.

Connect Read the Docs to other services by sending webhook events after each build.

Receive email notifications when a project build encounters an error.

Track and review authentication attempts for your organization and all of your private documentation projects.

Control access to your projects within your organization and group projects by teams.

How automatic documentation deployment works

Maintain docs as code

Versioning

Localization

Track change history

Bring your own tools

Build automatically

Build customization

Configuration file

Offline formats

Connect to all of your repositories

Private repository support Paid plan feature

Preview your changes

Everything in one place

For every project type

Authentication Paid plan feature

Bring your domain

Integrated search

Automation rules

Subprojects

Environment variables

Redirects

Analytics

Webhooks

Notifications

Audit log Paid plan feature

Team management Paid plan feature