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https://manpages.debian.org/ is a service providing online manpages in HTML format for the public. See [[Services/Debian manpages archive]] for the [[Services]] survey page. https://manpages.debian.org/ is a service providing online manpages in HTML format for the public.
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The manpages.d.o site is currently offline since April 2016 as there were scalibility issues with the service. See [[Services/Debian manpages archive]] for the [[Services]] survey page.

https://manpages.debian.org/ is a service providing online manpages in HTML format for the public.

Current status

See Services/Debian manpages archive for the Services survey page.

Possible implementations

There are three known implementations of "man to web" archive generators.

Current codebase

The current codebase is a set of Perl and bash CGI scripts that dynamically generate (and search through) manpages.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu has their own manpage repository at https://manpages.ubuntu.com/. Their codebase is partly Python, Perl and Bash.

New codebase

A new codebase written by dgilman is available in github. It is a simple Python script with a sqlite backend.