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kdeldycke authored and stephenfin committed Dec 6, 2022
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:target: https://sphinx-click.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
:alt: Documentation Status

`sphinx-click` is a `Sphinx`__ plugin that allows you to automatically extract
documentation from a `click-based`__ application and include it in your docs.
``sphinx-click`` is a `Sphinx`__ plugin that allows you to automatically extract
documentation from a `Click-based`__ application and include it in your docs.

__ http://www.sphinx-doc.org/
__ http://click.pocoo.org/

Installation
------------

Install the plugin using `pip`:
Install the plugin using ``pip``:

.. code-block:: shell
$ pip install sphinx-click
Alternatively, install from source by cloning this repo then running `pip`
Alternatively, install from source by cloning this repo then running ``pip``
locally:

.. code-block:: shell
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.. important::

To document a click-based application, both the application itself and any
To document a Click-based application, both the application itself and any
additional dependencies required by that application **must be installed**.

Enable the plugin in your Sphinx `conf.py` file:
Enable the plugin in your Sphinx ``conf.py``` file:

.. code-block:: python
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Detailed information on the various options available is provided in the
`documentation <https://sphinx-click.readthedocs.io>`_.

Alternative
-----------

This plugin is perfect to document a Click-based CLI in Sphinx, as it properly
renders the help screen and its options in nice HTML with deep links and
styling.

However, if you are looking to document the source code of a Click-based CLI,
and the result of its execution, you might want to check out `click-extra`__.
The latter provides the ``.. click:example::`` and ``.. click:run::`` Sphinx
directives so you can `capture and render, with full colors, the result of your
CLI in your documentation`__.

__ https://github.com/kdeldycke/click-extra/
__ https://kdeldycke.github.io/click-extra/sphinx.html

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