Documentation pages on ReadTheDocs have a nice sidebar with extra "Show on GitHub" and "Edit on GitHub" links. Here's how you can have those for your own Sphinx documentation:

  1. Create _ext and _templates subdirectories.
  2. Create a file _ext/edit_on_github.py that hooks into html-page-context to add a couple of template variables.
  3. Create a file _templates/sourcelink.html that uses those two variables to insert "Show on GitHub" and "Edit on GitHub" links in the sidebar.
  4. Edit conf.py and add os.path.abspath('_ext') to sys.path.
  5. Add edit_on_github to the list of extensions.
  6. Use edit_on_github_project to specify your GitHub username and repository (separated by a slash).
  7. Optionally use edit_on_github_branch to specify the desired branch (it defaults to 'master').
  8. Make sure _templates is in the templates path.
  9. make html and enjoy

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