How to get a list of warnings from sphinx compilation

Question

I am developing a sphinx based collaborative writing tool. Users access the web application (developed in python/Flask) to write a book in sphinx and compile it to pdf.

Answer 1

Assuming you used sphinx-quickstart to generate your initial Sphinx documentation set with a makefile, then you can use make to build docs, which in turn uses the Sphinx tool sphinx-build. You can pass the -w option to sphinx-build to write warnings and errors to a file as well as stderr.

Note that options passed through the command line override any other options set in the makefile and conf.py.