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Read the Docs
Automated building, versioning, and hosting of docs from Git; the long-standing home of open-source documentation.
Connect a repository and every push builds and hosts versioned documentation, with pull request previews, full-text search, and downloadable offline formats. It works with Sphinx and MkDocs and stays free for open-source projects. The boring, reliable choice that has hosted a large share of OSS documentation for over a decade.
Added July 12, 2026
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