reader-docs

Documentation for Reader, the content extraction API for LLMs. Built with Mintlify.

Structure

reader-docs/
├── mint.json                 # Navigation, theme, tabs, and API playground config
├── openapi.json              # Generated from reader-api. DO NOT edit by hand
├── home/
│   ├── introduction.mdx
│   ├── quickstart.mdx
│   ├── concepts/             # 11 concept pages (read primitive, proxy modes, errors, …)
│   └── guides/               # 31 guide pages (getting-started, async, production, …)
├── api-reference/            # 10 MDX shells bound to openapi.json operations
├── sdk/                      # JavaScript / Python SDK reference
└── self-hosted/              # Separate section for the self-hosted flavor. The
                              # ONLY place internal details like the scraping engine
                              # and proxy tiers may appear. Cloud docs stay opaque.

Local development

# One-time: install Mintlify CLI
npm i -g mintlify

# Start the dev server with live reload
mintlify dev --port 6005

Open http://localhost:6005. Edits to MDX files hot-reload automatically.

Note on OpenAPI changes: Mintlify's dev server caches openapi.json aggressively. After regenerating the spec (see below) you usually need to stop mintlify dev and restart it for the new operation bodies / examples to show up in the API playground.

Regenerating the OpenAPI spec

openapi.json is generated from reader-api/src/openapi/index.ts, the source of truth for request/response shapes, error examples, and playground metadata. To regenerate after an API change:

cd ../reader-api
npm run docs:gen

That writes a fresh reader-docs/openapi.json. Commit it alongside the reader-api changes so the docs preview matches.

Content rules

• Cloud docs are opaque. Pages under home/ and api-reference/ must not mention internal implementation: no datacenter/residential, no engine internals, no proxy provider names, no "browser pool". The abstract vocabulary is standard/stealth/auto for proxy modes and plain English for everything else.
• Self-hosted docs are transparent. Pages under self-hosted/ exist specifically so operators can understand the infrastructure they're running. Use the real names there.
• API code samples must match the v0.2 SDK shape. Results are discriminated unions: if (result.kind === "scrape") result.data.markdown. Jobs return result.data.results, not result.job.data. See existing pages under sdk/ and home/guides/ for reference patterns.
• Error codes are lowercase snake_case (rate_limited, insufficient_credits), not UPPER_SNAKE_CASE.

Deploying

Mintlify auto-deploys on push to the default branch. Check the Mintlify dashboard for deploy status and preview URLs.