rust-lang/docs.rs

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1173 stars · 234 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Docs.rs is the official documentation hosting service for crates published on crates.io, automatically building rustdoc documentation in sandboxed nightly Rust containers. The repository contains the Rust web server, build infrastructure, and tooling that power docs.rs.

Use cases

• host documentation for my rust crate automatically
• build rustdoc docs for every crates.io release
• download rustdoc for a crate programmatically
• configure custom docs.rs build features and targets
• run a local docs.rs instance for development
• get offline rustdoc archives for dash or zeal

When to choose

• you publish Rust crates and want automatic documentation hosting
• you need programmatic access to rustdoc JSON or documentation archives
• you want to contribute to or self-host the docs.rs infrastructure

When to avoid

• you need documentation hosting for non-Rust languages
• you just want to read Rust docs rather than build or host them
• you need a lightweight static site generator for docs

Facets

service · maturity active

documentation build-tool http-server documentation developer-tools apis rust self-hosted rustdoc crates-io docs-hosting sandboxed-builds rustdoc- rust docker web-server

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