Read the Docs Addons

Read the Docs Addons is a group of features for documentation readers and maintainers that you can add to any documentation set hosted on Read the Docs. They are used in the rendered documentation, and can be accessed via hotkeys or on screen UI elements.

Visual diff

Highlight changed output from pull requests

Link previews

See the content the link points to before clicking on it

Documentation notification

Alert users to various documentation states

Flyout

Easily switch between versions and translations

Non-stable notification

Notify readers that they are reading docs from a non stable release

Latest version notification

Notify readers that they are reading docs from a development version

Search as you type

Get search results faster

Traffic analytics

See what pages your users are reading

Search analytics

Understand what your users are searching for

Configuring Read the Docs Addons

Individual configuration options for each addon are available in Settings.

  1. Go to the new dashboard:

  2. Click on a project name.

  3. Go to Settings

  4. In the left bar, go to Addons.

  5. Configure each Addon individually.

Addons data and customization

If you’d like to do a custom integration with the data used to render Addons, you can learn more about this in our Custom event integration docs.

Diving deeper

You can read more about all of the Addons functionality by diving into each Addon above. If you are a developer and would like to integrate with our Addons or use our existing data, you can reach out to us and we would love to work with you.