# doc-builder **Repository Path**: mirrors_qubvel/doc-builder ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: doc-builder - **Description**: The package used to build the documentation of our Hugging Face repos - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Apache-2.0 - **Default Branch**: main - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2025-08-19 - **Last Updated**: 2026-03-07 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # doc-builder This is the package we use to build the documentation of our Hugging Face repos. ## Table of Contents - [doc-builder](#doc-builder) * [Installation](#installation) * [Previewing](#previewing) * [Doc building](#doc-building) * [Writing in notebooks](#writing-in-notebooks) * [Templates for GitHub Actions](#templates-for-github-actions) + [Enabling multilingual documentation](#enabling-multilingual-documentation) + [Redirects](#redirects) * [Fixing and testing doc-builder](#fixing-and-testing-doc-builder) * [Writing documentation for Hugging Face libraries](#writing-documentation-for-hugging-face-libraries) + [Internal link to object](#internal-link-to-object) + [External link to object](#external-link-to-object) + [Tip](#tip) + [Framework Content](#framework-content) + [Options](#options) + [Anchor link](#anchor-link) + [LaTeX](#latex) + [Code Blocks](#code-blocks) + [Inference Snippet](#inference-snippet) * [Writing API documentation (Python)](#writing-api-documentation-python) + [Autodoc](#autodoc) + [Code Blocks from file references](#code-blocks-from-file-references) + [Writing source documentation](#writing-source-documentation) + [Description](#description) + [Arguments](#arguments) + [Attributes](#attributes) + [Parmeter typing and default value](#parmeter-typing-and-default-value) + [Returns](#returns) + [Yields](#yields) + [Raises](#raises) + [Directives for Added, Changed, Deprecated](#directives-for-added-changed-deprecated) * [Developing svelte locally](#developing-svelte-locally) ## Installation You can install from PyPi with ```bash pip install hf-doc-builder ``` To install from source, clone this repository then ```bash cd doc-builder pip install -e . ``` ## Previewing To preview the docs, use the following command: ```bash doc-builder preview {package_name} {path_to_docs} ``` For example: ```bash doc-builder preview datasets ~/Desktop/datasets/docs/source/ ``` **`preview` command only works with existing doc files. When you add a completely new file, you need to update `_toctree.yml` & restart `preview` command (`ctrl-c` to stop it & call `doc-builder preview ...` again). **`preview` command does not work with Windows. ## Doc building To build the documentation of a given package, use the following command: ```bash #Add --not_python_module if not building doc for a python lib doc-builder build {package_name} {path_to_docs} --build_dir {build_dir} ``` For instance, here is how you can build the Datasets documentation (requires `pip install datasets[dev]`) if you have cloned the repo in `~/git/datasets`: ```bash doc-builder build datasets ~/git/datasets/docs/source --build_dir ~/tmp/test-build ``` This will generate MDX files that you can preview like any Markdown file in your favorite editor. To have a look at the documentation in HTML, you need to install node version 14 or higher. Then you can run (still with the example on Datasets) ```bash doc-builder build datasets ~/git/datasets/docs/source --build_dir ~/tmp/test-build --html ``` which will build HTML files in `~/tmp/test-build`. You can then inspect those files in your browser. `doc-builder` can also automatically convert some of the documentation guides or tutorials into notebooks. This requires two steps: - add `[[open-in-colab]]` in the tutorial for which you want to build a notebook - add `--notebook_dir {path_to_notebook_folder}` to the build command. ## Writing in notebooks You can write your docs in jupyter notebooks & use doc-builder to: turn jupyter notebooks into mdx files. In some situations, such as course & tutorials, it makes more sense to write in jupyter notebooks (& use doc-builder converter) rather than writing in mdx files directly. The process is: 1. In your `build_main_documentation.yml` & `build_pr_documentation.yml` enable the flag [convert_notebooks: true](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/blob/main/.github/workflows/build_main_documentation.yml#L46-L48). 2. After this flag is enabled, doc-builder will convert all .ipynb files in [path_to_docs](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/blob/main/.github/workflows/build_main_documentation.yml#L19-L20) to mdx files. Moreover, you can locally convert .ipynb files into mdx files. ```bash doc-builder notebook-to-mdx {path to notebook file or folder containing notebook files} ``` ## Templates for GitHub Actions `doc-builder` provides templates for GitHub Actions, so you can build your documentation with every pull request, push to some branch etc. To use them in your project, simply create the following three files in the `.github/workflows/` directory: * `build_main_documentation.yml`: responsible for building the docs for the `main` branch, releases etc. * `build_pr_documentation.yml`: responsible for building the docs on each PR. * `upload_pr_documentation.yml`: responsible for uploading the PR artifacts to the Hugging Face Hub. * `delete_doc_comment_trigger.yml`: responsible for removing the comments from the `HuggingFaceDocBuilder` bot that provides a URL to the PR docs. Within each workflow, the main thing to include is a pointer from the `uses` field to the corresponding workflow in `doc-builder`. For example, this is what the PR workflow looks like in the `datasets` library: ```yaml name: Build PR Documentation on: pull_request: concurrency: group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }} cancel-in-progress: true jobs: build: uses: huggingface/doc-builder/.github/workflows/build_pr_documentation.yml@main # Runs this doc-builder workflow with: commit_sha: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} pr_number: ${{ github.event.number }} package: datasets # Replace this with your package name ``` Note the use of special arguments like `pr_number` and `package` under the `with` field. You can find the various options by inspecting each of the `doc-builder` [workflow files](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/tree/main/.github/workflows). ### Enabling multilingual documentation `doc-builder` can also convert documentation that's been translated from the English source into one or more languages. To enable the conversion, the documentation directories should be structured as follows: ``` doc_folder ├── en │ ├── _toctree.yml │ ├── _redirects.yml │ ... └── es ├── _toctree.yml ├── _redirects.yml ... ``` Note that each language directory has its own table of contents file `_toctree.yml` and that all languages are arranged under a single `doc_folder` directory - see the [`course`](https://github.com/huggingface/course/tree/main/chapters) repo for an example. You can then build the individual language subsets as follows: ```bash doc-builder build {package_name} {path_to_docs} --build_dir {build_dir} --language {lang_id} ``` To automatically build the documentation for all languages via the GitHub Actions templates, simply provide the `languages` argument to your workflow, with a space-separated list of the languages you wish to build, e.g. `languages: en es`. ### Redirects You can optionally provide `_redirects.yml` for "old links". The yml file should look like: ```yml how_to: getting_started package_reference/classes: package_reference/main_classes # old_local: new_local ``` ## Fixing and testing doc-builder If you are working on a fix or an update of the doc-builder tool itself, you will eventually want to test it in the CI of another repository (transformers, diffusers, courses, etc.). To do so you should set the `doc_builder_revision` argument in your workflow file to point to your branch. Here is an example of what it would look like in the [`transformers.js` project](https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/blob/main/.github/workflows/pr-documentation.yml): ```yml jobs: build: uses: huggingface/doc-builder/.github/workflows/build_pr_documentation.yml@my-test-branch with: repo_owner: xenova commit_sha: ${{ github.sha }} pr_number: ${{ github.event.number }} package: transformers.js path_to_docs: transformers.js/docs/source pre_command: cd transformers.js && npm install && npm run docs-api additional_args: --not_python_module doc_builder_revision: my-test-branch # <- add this line ``` Once the docs build is complete in your project, you can drop that change. ## Writing documentation for Hugging Face libraries `doc-builder` expects Markdown so you should write any new documentation in `".mdx"` files for tutorials, guides, API documentations. For docstrings, we follow the [Google format](https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html) with the main difference that you should use Markdown instead of restructured text (hopefully, that will be easier!) Values that should be put in `code` should either be surrounded by backticks: \`like so\`. Note that argument names and objects like True, None or any strings should usually be put in `code`. Multi-line code blocks can be useful for displaying examples. They are done between two lines of three backticks as usual in Markdown: ```` ``` # first line of code # second line # etc ``` ```` We follow the [doctest](https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html) syntax for the examples to automatically test the results stay consistent with the library. ### Internal link to object Syntax: ```html [`XXXClass`] or [`~XXXClass`] // for class [`XXXClass.method`] or [`~XXXClass.method`] // for method ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_doc/sew-d.md?plain=1#L39) & [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/6f79d264422245d88c7a34032c1a8254a0c65752/examples/research_projects/performer/modeling_flax_performer.py#L48) (as used inside docstring). When mentioning a class, function or method, it is recommended to use the following syntax for internal links so that our tool automatically adds a link to its documentation: \[\`XXXClass\`\] or \[\`function\`\]. This requires the class or function to be in the main package. If you want to create a link to some internal class or function, you need to provide its path. For instance, in the Transformers documentation \[\`file_utils.ModelOutput\`\] will create a link to the documentation of `ModelOutput`. This link will have `file_utils.ModelOutput` in the description. To get rid of the path and only keep the name of the object you are linking to in the description, add a ~: \[\`~file_utils.ModelOutput\`\] will generate a link with `ModelOutput` in the description. The same works for methods, so you can either use \[\`XXXClass.method\`\] or \[\`~XXXClass.method\`\]. ### External link to object Syntax: ```html [`XXXLibrary.XXXClass`] or [`~XXXLibrary.XXXClass`] // for class [`XXXLibrary.XXXClass.method`] or [`~XXXLibrary.XXXClass.method`] // for method ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/0f0e1a2c2bff68541a5b9770d78e0fb6feb7de72/docs/source/en/accelerate.md?plain=1#L29) linking object from `accelerate` inside `transformers`. ### Tip To write a block that you'd like to see highlighted as a note or warning, place your content between the following markers. Syntax: ```md > [!TIP] > Here is a tip. Go to this url [website](www.tip.com) > > Second line ``` or ```html Write your note here ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/0f0e1a2c2bff68541a5b9770d78e0fb6feb7de72/docs/source/en/create_a_model.md#L282-L286) For warnings, change the introduction to: Syntax: ```md > [!WARNING] ``` or ```html `` ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/de/autoclass_tutorial.md#L102-L108) ### Framework Content If your documentation has a block that is framework-dependent (PyTorch vs TensorFlow vs Flax), you can use the following syntax: Syntax: ```html PyTorch content goes here TensorFlow content goes here Flax content goes here ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/de/autoclass_tutorial.md#L84-L131) Note: all frameworks are optional (you can write a PyTorch-only block for instance) and the order does not matter. ### Options Show alternatives (let's say code blocks for different version of a library etc.) in a way where a user can select an option and see the selected option content: Syntax: ```html {YOUR MARKDOWN} {YOUR MARKDOWN} ... however many tags ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/75ea54a1512ac443d517ab35cb9bf45f8d6f326e/docs/source/en/using-diffusers/kandinsky.md?plain=1#L30-L81) Note: for multiple `` in a same page, you may consider using same id so that when a user selects one option it affects all other hfoptions blocks. If you don't want this behaviour, use different ids. ### Anchor link Anchor links for markdown headings are generated automatically (with the following rule: 1. lowercase, 2. replace space with dash `-`, 3. strip [^a-z0-9-]): Syntax: ``` ## My awesome section // the anchor link is: `my-awesome-section` ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_doc/bert.md#L132) Moreover, there is a way to customize the anchor link. Syntax: ``` ## My awesome section[[some-section]] // the anchor link is: `some-section` ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_summary.md#L79) ### LaTeX Latex display mode. `$$...$$` Syntax: ``` $$Y = X * \textbf{dequantize}(W); \text{quantize}(W)$$ ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/docs/source/en/model_doc/rwkv.md?plain=1#L107) Latex inline mode. `\\( ... )\\` Syntax: ``` \\( Y = X * \textbf{dequantize}(W); \text{quantize}(W) )\\ ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/docs/source/en/model_doc/rwkv.md?plain=1#L93) ### Code Blocks Code blocks are written using a regular markdown syntax ```. However, there is a special flag you can put in your mdx files to change the wrapping style of the resulting html from overflow/scrollbar to wrap. Syntax: ``` ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/blob/724199aaf172590c3658018c0e6bc6152cda4c2f/docs/source/basic_tutorials/launcher.md?plain=1#L3) ### Inference Snippet The `InferenceSnippet` component is used to render an interactive interface for AI model inference. It uses [huggingface/huggingface.js](https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface.js) under the hood to get the snippets. #### Props Below is a description of the props that can be passed to this component: - **pipeline** (string, required): Specifies the type of pipeline to be used for inference. Common values include `"text-generation"`, `"text-classification"`, etc. - **providersMapping** (mapping of {modelId: string, providerModelId: string}, required): A mapping which keys are provider names and values are objects with `modelId` and `providerModelId`. Example: `{"fireworks-ai": {modelId: "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1", providerModelId: "accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-r1", novita: {modelId: "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324", providerModelId: "deepseek/deepseek-v3-0324"}}` - **conversational** (boolean, optional): If set to `true`, the component will enable conversational mode, allowing for multi-turn interactions for `text-generation` models. #### Example Usage ```svelte ``` ```svelte ``` ```svelte ``` #### Adding new inference provider Step 1: get latest `huggingface/huggingface.js` by running the command below: ``` cd kit npm run update-inference-providers ``` Step 2: add an icon for the new provider in `kit/src/lib/InferenceSnippet/InferenceSnippet.svelte`. ## Writing API documentation (Python) ### Autodoc To show the full documentation of any object of the python library you are documenting, use the `[[autodoc]]` marker. Syntax: ``` [[autodoc]] SomeObject ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_doc/bert.md?plain=1#L142) If the object is a class, this will include every public method of it that is documented. If for some reason you wish for a method not to be displayed in the documentation, you can do so by specifying which methods should be in the docs, here is an example: Syntax: ``` [[autodoc]] XXXTokenizer - build_inputs_with_special_tokens - get_special_tokens_mask - create_token_type_ids_from_sequences - save_vocabulary ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_doc/bert.md?plain=1#L158-L159) If you just want to add a method that is not documented (for instance magic method like `__call__` are not documented by default) you can put the list of methods to add in a list that contains `all`: Syntax: ``` ## XXXTokenizer [[autodoc]] XXXTokenizer - all - __call__ ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/eb849f6604c7dcc0e96d68f4851e52e253b9f0e5/docs/source/en/model_doc/bert.md?plain=1#L258-L259) ### Code Blocks from file references You can create a code-block by referencing a file excerpt with `` (sphinx-inspired) syntax. There should be json between `` open & close tags. Syntax: ``` {"path": "./data/convert_literalinclude_dummy.txt", # relative path "language": "python", # defaults to " (empty str) "start-after": "START python_import", # defaults to start of file "end-before": "END python_import", # defaults to end of file "dedent": 7 # defaults to 0 } ``` ### Writing source documentation ### Description For a class or function description string, use markdown with [all the custom syntax of doc-builder](#writing-documentation-for-hugging-face-libraries). Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/910faa3e1f1c566b23a0318f78f5caf5bda8d3b2/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py#L257-L267) ### Arguments Arguments of a function/class/method should be defined with the `Args:` (or `Arguments:` or `Parameters:`) prefix, followed by a line return and an indentation. The argument should be followed by its type, with its shape if it is a tensor, a colon, and its description: Syntax: ``` Args: n_layers (`int`): The number of layers of the model. ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/6f79d264422245d88c7a34032c1a8254a0c65752/src/transformers/models/bert/tokenization_bert_fast.py#L168-L198) If the description is too long to fit in one line, another indentation is necessary before writing the description after the argument. Syntax: ``` Args: input_ids (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`): Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Indices can be obtained using [`AlbertTokenizer`]. See [`~PreTrainedTokenizer.encode`] and [`~PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__`] for details. [What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids) ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/6f79d264422245d88c7a34032c1a8254a0c65752/src/transformers/models/bert/tokenization_bert_fast.py#L173-L175) You can check the full example it comes from [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v4.17.0/src/transformers/models/bert/modeling_bert.py#L794-L841) ### Attributes If a class is similar to that of a dataclass but the parameters do not align to the available attributes of the class, such as in the below example, `Attributes` instance should be rewritten as `**Attributes**` in order to have the documentation properly render these. Otherwise it will assume that `Attributes` is synonymous to `Parameters`. Syntax: ```diff class SomeClass: """ Docstring - Attributes: + **Attributes**: - **attr_a** (`type_a`) -- Doc a - **attr_b** (`type_b`) -- Doc b """ def __init__(self, param_a, param_b): ... ``` ### Parmeter typing and default value For optional arguments or arguments with defaults we follow the following syntax. Imagine we have a function with the following signature: ``` def my_function(x: str = None, a: float = 1): ``` then its documentation should look like this: Syntax: ``` Args: x (`str`, *optional*): This argument controls ... a (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 1): This argument is used to ... ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/6f79d264422245d88c7a34032c1a8254a0c65752/src/transformers/models/bert/tokenization_bert_fast.py#L176) Note that we always omit the "defaults to \`None\`" when None is the default for any argument. Also note that even if the first line describing your argument type and its default gets long, you can't break it on several lines. You can however write as many lines as you want in the indented description (see the example above with `input_ids`). If your argument has for type a class defined in the package, you can use the syntax we saw earlier to link to its documentation: ``` Args: config ([`BertConfig`]): Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [`~PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained`] method to load the model weights. ``` ### Returns The return block should be introduced with the `Returns:` prefix, followed by a line return and an indentation. The first line should be the type of the return, followed by a line return. No need to indent further for the elements building the return. Here's an example for a single value return: Syntax: ``` Returns: `List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1] --- 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token. ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/910faa3e1f1c566b23a0318f78f5caf5bda8d3b2/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py#L273-L275) Here's an example for tuple return, comprising several objects: Syntax: ``` Returns: `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration ([`BertConfig`]) and inputs: - ** loss** (*optional*, returned when `masked_lm_labels` is provided) `torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)` -- Total loss as the sum of the masked language modeling loss and the next sequence prediction (classification) loss. - **prediction_scores** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)`) -- Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax). ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/003a0cf8cc4d78e47ef9debfb1e93a5c1197ca9a/examples/research_projects/bert-loses-patience/pabee/modeling_pabee_albert.py#L107-L130) ### Yields Similarly, `Yields` is also supported. Syntax: ``` Yields: `tuple[str, io.BufferedReader]`: 2-tuple (path_within_archive, file_object). File object is opened in binary mode. ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/f56fd9d6c877ffa6fb44fb832c13b61227c9cc5b/src/datasets/download/download_manager.py#L459-L462C17) ### Raises You can also document `Raises`. Syntax: ``` Args: config ([`BertConfig`]): Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [`~PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained`] method to load the model weights. Raises: `pa.ArrowInvalidError`: if the arrow data casting fails TypeError: if the target type is not supported according, e.g. - point1 - point2 [`HTTPError`](https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/api/#requests.HTTPError) if credentials are invalid [`HTTPError`](https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/api/#requests.HTTPError) if connection got lost Returns: `List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1] --- 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token. ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/1b2381c46b834a89e447f7a01f0961c4e940d117/src/transformers/models/mask2former/image_processing_mask2former.py#L167-L168) ### Directives for Added, Changed, Deprecated There are directives for `Added`, `Changed`, & `Deprecated`. Syntax: ``` Args: cache_dir (`str`, *optional*): Directory to cache data. config_name (`str`, *optional*): Name of the dataset configuration. It affects the data generated on disk: different configurations will have their own subdirectories and versions. If not provided, the default configuration is used (if it exists). `name` was renamed to `config_name`. name (`str`): Configuration name for the dataset. Use `config_name` instead. ``` Example: [here](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/a1e1867e932f14233244fb25713f3c94c46ff50a/src/datasets/combine.py#L53) ## Developing svelte locally We use svelte components for doc UI ([Tip component](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/blob/890df105f4173fb8dc299ad6ba3e4db378d2e53d/kit/src/lib/Tip.svelte), [Docstring component](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/blob/a9598feb5a681a3817e58ef8d792349e85a30d1e/kit/src/lib/Docstring.svelte), etc.). Follow these steps to develop svelte locally: 1. Create this file if it doesn't already exist: `doc-builder/kit/src/routes/_toctree.yml`. Contents should be: ``` - sections: - local: index title: Index page title: Index page ``` 2. Create this file if it doesn't already exist: `doc-builder/kit/src/routes/index.mdx`. Contents should be whatever you'd like to test. For example: ``` [Here](https://myurl.com) ## Some heading And some text [Here](https://myurl.com) Physics is the natural science that studies matter,[a] its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.[2] Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves.[b][3][4][5] A scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a physicist. ``` 3. Install dependencies & run dev mode ```bash cd doc-builder/kit npm ci npm run dev -- --open ``` 4. Start developing. See svelte files in `doc-builder/kit/src/lib` for reference. The flow should be: 1. Create a svelte component in `doc-builder/kit/src/lib` 2. Import it & test it in `doc-builder/kit/src/routes/index.mdx`