diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
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+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXPROJ    = warcdb
+SOURCEDIR     = .
+BUILDDIR      = _build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+livehtml:
+	sphinx-autobuild -b html "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(0)
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
+from beanbag_docutils.sphinx.ext.github import github_linkcode_resolve
+
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    "myst_parser",
+    "sphinx_copybutton",
+    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
+    "sphinx.ext.extlinks",
+    "sphinx_copybutton",
+    "sphinx.ext.linkcode",
+]
+myst_enable_extensions = ["colon_fence"]
+
+
+def linkcode_resolve(domain, info):
+    return github_linkcode_resolve(
+        domain=domain,
+        info=info,
+        allowed_module_names=["warcdb"],
+        github_org_id="Florents-Tselai",
+        github_repo_id="warcdb",
+        branch="main",
+    )
+
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ["_templates"]
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+#
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = ".rst"
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = "index"
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = "warcdb"
+copyright = "2023, Florents Tselai"
+author = "Florents Tselai"
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+pipe = Popen("git describe --tags --always", stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
+git_version = pipe.stdout.read().decode("utf8")
+
+if git_version:
+    version = git_version.rsplit("-", 1)[0]
+    release = git_version
+else:
+    version = ""
+    release = ""
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = "en"
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
+exclude_patterns = ["_build", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store"]
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+# pygments_style = "sphinx"
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = False
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = "furo"
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+
+html_theme_options = {}
+
+html_title = "WarcDB"
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = []
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = "WarcDB-doc"
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    #
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    #
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    #
+    # 'preamble': '',
+    # Latex figure (float) alignment
+    #
+    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (
+        master_doc,
+        "WarcDB.tex",
+        "WarcDB documentation",
+        "Florents Tselai \n florents@tselai.com",
+        "manual",
+    )
+]
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (
+        master_doc,
+        "WarcDB",
+        "WarcDB documentation",
+        [author],
+        1,
+    )
+]
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (
+        master_doc,
+        "WarcDB",
+        "WarcDB documentation",
+        author,
+        "WarcDB",
+        "  WarcDB is an SQLite-based file format that makes web crawl data easier to share and query",
+    )
+]
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
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+../README.md
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diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
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+sphinx==7.2.6
+furo==2023.9.10
+sphinx-autobuild
+sphinx-copybutton
+myst-parser
+cogapp
+beanbag-docutils>=2.0
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