# Ubuntu Manpages

> A repository of hundreds of thousands of manpages from every supported Ubuntu release, rendered as browsable HTML.

This site provides web-accessible Unix/Linux manual pages (manpages) extracted from Ubuntu packages.

## Content Structure

- https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/{release}/man{section}/{name}.{section}.html — Individual manpage
- https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/{release}/ — Browse manpages by release
- https://manpages.ubuntu.com/search?q={query} — Search across all manpages

## Plain Text

Append .txt to any manpage URL for plain text output suitable for LLM consumption:
- https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/{release}/man{section}/{name}.{section}.txt

## Releases

- bionic (18.04)
- focal (20.04)
- jammy (22.04)
- noble (24.04)
- questing (25.10)
- resolute (26.04)
- stonking (26.10)
- trusty (14.04)
- xenial (16.04)

## Man Sections

- man1: User commands
- man2: System calls
- man3: Library functions
- man4: Special files
- man5: File formats
- man6: Games
- man7: Miscellaneous
- man8: System administration
- man9: Kernel routines

## API

- GET https://manpages.ubuntu.com/api/search?q={query}&release={release}&lang={lang}&limit={n}&offset={n}
  Returns JSON with fields: total, results (array of {title, path, distro, section, match_type})
  match_type is one of: exact, prefix, contains, fuzzy (Damerau-Levenshtein)
  Results are ranked: exact > prefix > contains > fuzzy