A Sphinx extension for linking to your project's issue tracker. Includes roles for linking to issues, pull requests, user profiles, with built-in support for GitHub (though this works with other services).

For an example usage, check out marshmallow's changelog, which makes use of the roles in this library.

pip install sphinx-issues

Add sphinx_issues to extensions in your conf.py.

The extension has default values for GitHub projects. Simply set the add the issues_default_group_project config variable and you are good to go:

# docs/conf.py

# ...
extensions = [
    # ...
    "sphinx_issues"
]

# Path to GitHub repo {group}/{project}  (note that `group` is the GitHub user or organization)
issues_github_path = "sloria/marshmallow"

# which is the equivalent to:
issues_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/issues/{issue}"
issues_prefix = "#"
issues_pr_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/pull/{pr}"
issues_pr_prefix = "#"
issues_commit_uri = "https://github.com/{group}/{project}/commit/{commit}"
issues_commit_prefix = "@"
issues_user_uri = "https://github.com/{user}"
issues_user_prefix = "@"

The extension is very configurable and can be used with any kind of issue tracker. Here is how you could configure it for use with a custom hosed GitLab instance:

# docs/conf.py

# ...
extensions = [
    # ...
    "sphinx_issues"
]

#  Default repo {group}/{project} of gitlab project
issues_default_group_project = "myteam/super_great_project"
issues_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/issues/{issue}"
issues_prefix = "#"
issues_pr_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/merge_requests/{pr}"
issues_pr_prefix = "!"
issues_commit_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{group}/{project}/-/commit/{commit}"
issues_commit_prefix = "@"
issues_user_uri = "https://gitlab.company.com/{user}"
issues_user_prefix = "@"

Use the :issue: and :pr: roles in your docs like so:

See issue :issue:`42`

See issues :issue:`12,13`

See :issue:`sloria/konch#45`.

See PR :pr:`58`

Use the :user: role in your docs to link to user profiles (GitHub by default, but can be configured via the issues_user_uri config variable).

Use the :commit: role to link to commits.

Fixed in :commit:`6bb9124d5e9dbb2f7b52864c3d8af7feb1b69403`.

Use the :cve: role to link to CVEs on https://cve.mitre.org.

:cve:`CVE-2018-17175` - Addresses possible vulnerability when...

Thanks to :user:`bitprophet` for the idea!

You can also use explicit names if you want to use a different name than the github user name:

This change is due to :user:`Andreas Mueller <amueller>`.

The syntax :role:`My custom title <target>` works for all roles of this extension.

It can be also used in combination with a list:

Fix bad bug :issue:`123, (Duplicate) <199>`

Use the :cwe: role to link to CWEs on https://cwe.mitre.org.

:cwe:`CWE-787` - The software writes data past the end, or...

Use the :pypi: role to link to PyPI on https://pypi.org.

:pypi:`sphinx-issues` - A Sphinx extension for linking to your project's issue tracker.

Credit goes to Jeff Forcier for his work on the releases extension, which is a full-featured solution for generating changelogs. I just needed a quick way to reference GitHub issues in my docs, so I yoinked the bits that I needed.

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.

• Add :pypi: role for linking to PyPI projects (#144). Thanks @shenxianpeng for the suggestion and PR.

• Default to linking GH Sponsors for the :user: role (#129). Thanks @webknjaz for the suggestion.
• Support Python 3.8-3.12. Older versions are no longer supported.
• Backwards-incompatible: Remove __version__, __author__, and __license__ attributes. Use importlib.metadata to read this metadata instead.

• Fix regression from 3.0.0: exception: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not type.

• The :commit: role now outputs with an @ prefix.
• Add configuration options for changing prefixes.
• Allow {group} to be specified within issues_uri, issues_pr_uri, issues_commit_uri, and

• Drop support for Python 2.7 and 3.5.
• Test against Python 3.8 to 3.10.
• Add :cwe: role for linking to CVEs on https://cwe.mitre.org. Thanks @hugovk for the PR.
• Add support for custom urls and separators Issue #93
• Allow custom titles for all roles Issue #116
• Added setting issues_default_group_project as future replacement of issues_github_path, to reflect the now to universal nature of the extension

• Add :commit: role for linking to commits.
• Add support for linking to external repos.
• Test against Python 3.7.

• Add :cve: role for linking to CVEs on https://cve.mitre.org.

• Add :pr: role. Thanks @jnotham for the suggestion.
• Drop support for Python 3.4.

• Raise ValueError if neither issues_uri nor issues_github_path is set. Thanks @jnothman for the PR.
• Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.

• setup returns metadata, preventing warnings about parallel reads and writes. Thanks @jfinkels for reporting.

• Support anchor text for :user: role. Thanks @jnothman for the suggestion and thanks @amueller for the PR.

• Add :user: role for linking to GitHub user profiles.

• Initial release.