griffonner 0.3.3

A templating tool for Griffe.

Griffonner

Template-first Python documentation generator that gets out of your way.

From French "griffonner" (to scribble/draft) - because Griffe finds it, you sketch it out

Quick start

1. Create a markdown file with frontmatter:

---
template: "python/default/module.md.jinja2"
griffe_target: "mypackage.utils"
output:
  filename: "api-utils.md"
---

# Optional content here

2. Generate documentation:

pip install griffonner
griffonner generate docs/pages/

That's it! Griffonner uses Griffe to parse your Python code and Jinja2 templates to generate docs in any format you want.

Features

• Zero opinions - You control output format through templates
• Frontmatter-driven - Configuration in your markdown files
• Template ecosystem - Share and reuse templates
• Format agnostic - Generate Markdown, RST, HTML, JSON, anything

Example templates

# List available templates
griffonner templates

# Generate with custom template
---
template: "python/gitlab-wiki/module.md.jinja2"
griffe_target: "myapp.database"
custom_vars:
  emoji: "🗄️"
  category: "Core"
---

CLI

griffonner generate docs/pages/           # Generate all
griffonner generate docs/pages/api.md    # Generate one
griffonner watch docs/pages/             # Watch mode

Contributing

We use uv for dependency management and just for task running:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/griffonner
cd griffonner
uv sync
just test    # Run tests
just format  # Lint and format code
just -l      # See other tasks