open-webui/docs

What it is

This project contains the official documentation for Open WebUI, a self-hosted, privacy-focused, and extensible interface for interacting with large language models (LLMs) like Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible API.

What the docs cover

The documentation website includes:

• Installation & setup guides — instructions for installing via Docker, local setup, and manual installation.
• Plugin & extension documentation — how to extend the interface with plugins.
• API reference & pipeline usage — technical details for developers using Open WebUI's API and data pipelines.
• File uploads & RAG integration — guides on uploading files and connecting retrieval-based features (RAG, which stands for retrieval-augmented generation — combining stored data with AI responses).
• Developer contribution guide — a tutorial for developers who want to contribute to the project.

How the site is built

The documentation site itself is built with Docusaurus, a static site generator.

Contributing

The project welcomes contributions. Anyone interested should read the contributing tutorial, linked in the README as docs/tutorials/contributing-tutorial.md.

Live documentation

The published docs are available at docs.openwebui.com.