Devdocs Io

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DevDocs.io — unified programming documentation search across hundreds of languages and frameworks.

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Tools

docs

Return the full DevDocs.io catalog of all available documentation sets: name, slug, type, version, and release for every supported library/language.

No parameters required.

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search_docs

Find which documentation SETS exist whose NAME matches a substring (e.g. "python" → Python 3.x, "react" → React). Returns doc SETS, NOT their content — this does NOT look up a function/method/API name

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index

Index of entries inside a doc.

No parameters required.

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search_index

Search WITHIN a documentation set for a specific entry (method/function/API/property) by substring — THIS is the content lookup. E.g. slug="javascript", query="Array.map"; slug="python", query="os.pat

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db

Content database for a doc (large).

No parameters required.

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entry

Single entry HTML.

No parameters required.

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types

List categories inside a doc.

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/devdocs-io/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/devdocs-io/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"docs","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("docs", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("devdocs");