An unofficial DevDocs API Documentation viewer for macOS.

• Tabs
• Global shortcut (Option + Space), customizable
• Automatic dark/light mode UI
• Protocol handler integration (handle devdocs-macos://, http://, and https:// URLs)
• Page search (Cmd + F)

Protocol handler integration allows you to control DevDocs through scripts. For example:

$ osascript -e 'tell application "DevDocs" to open location "devdocs-macos://search?doc=rails&term=stro"'

... will tell DevDocs to open a new window and search the Rails documentation for the term stro.

The app supports the following commands. When required parameters are not supplied, the command is ignored.

This is for launching a search query in a new window.

This opens a new window.

DevDocs will open a new window only for URLs on the devdocs.io domain. For example:

$ osascript -e 'tell application "DevDocs" to open location "https://devdocs.io/#q=rails+stro"'

Other domains are ignored.

Pre-built binaries can be downloaded from the releases page.

Unzip, drag the app to Applications, and then run it.

If you wish to install the application from Homebrew:

$ brew cask install dteoh-devdocs

The application will live at /Applications/DevDocs.app.

The application had a tap maintained by the project. To migrate to the default tap:

$ brew cask uninstall devdocs-macos
$ brew untap dteoh/devdocs
$ brew cask install dteoh-devdocs

The app is currently developed on Mojave and only support for Mojave can be provided.

DevDocs for macOS

Copyright (C) 2020 Douglas Teoh

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The app icon is a contribution courtesy of @micck (#1).