Stand Alone Generators

These tools only need python code to generate API documenation

1. pydoc_fork
2. Pycco
3. PyDoctor
4. pdoc3

Generator Plugins

Mkdocs is a site generator that uses markdown as the templating language. It supports plugins, some of which do automatic API documentation.

1. mkdocstrings

Sphinx like mkdocs assumes you are creating a rst document that will compile to html or other things. It has a plugin to generate API documentation. Nothing ever works out of the box.

1. sphinx