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Hey guys & gals, I created cocoadocs to try and fill a gap in the iOS ecosystem. It's a site that acts similar to rubydocs in that it gets the latest cocoapods libraries and documents them using a custom flavour of appledoc. I'm planning on adding support for Xcode and Dash over the next few weeks to make it even easier to use!

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I've been experimenting with adding Github search links for methods and properties too - so you can get context on their uses ( this has them when you mouse over further down the page: http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/AFIncrementalStore/0.4.0/Classe... )

Looks great! Only one thing, how often is it updated? I pushed a new Podspec to the master repo about 5 days ago for one of my projects (http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/Colours/0.0.1/) and it should be v1.0.1. Just wondering if you are doing live grabbing of the data or have it cached somewhere?

Cached for the moment, I'm wrapping up the CI server which will be constantly updating podspecs from this week onwards.

Nice! I have a "pod" in the Cocoa Pods repository and the documentation has been reproduced faithfully!

I like how you pull the github README to use at the documentation landing page.

If you provide a /search?query=%s endpoint I would build an Alfred V2 Workflow for it. Downloading the whole documents.jsonp file each time is slow.

I'd love to but ATM its a static site hosted on s3, so no API at all. Moving to something which is API / Client is within my next major move, at that point it will be super easy.

Just having a HTML doc with a meta refresh from the distribution to the latest version would make a lot of things easier.

IE have http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/NUI/ Redirects to: http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/NUI/0.2.7/

This would enable http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/%s shortcuts

Orta already made an issue for this in the CocoaDocs repo :)

This is fantastic. Great work… I will be adding this to my repertoire of resources.

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