diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4aa06b940..e60039eed 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 drone/drone
 *.sqlite
-*.txt
 *.out
 /.env
 extras/
@@ -15,3 +14,5 @@ web/node_modules
 web/dist/files
 web/*.log
 web/.env
+
+docs/venv
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff88f2885
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+backports-abc==0.5
+Click==7.0
+futures==3.3.0
+htmlmin==0.1.12
+Jinja2==2.10.3
+jsmin==2.2.2
+livereload==2.6.1
+Markdown==3.1.1
+MarkupSafe==1.1.1
+mkdocs==1.0.4
+mkdocs-material==4.4.3
+mkdocs-minify-plugin==0.2.1
+pep562==1.0
+Pygments==2.4.2
+pymdown-extensions==6.1
+PyYAML==5.1.2
+singledispatch==3.4.0.3
+six==1.13.0
+tornado==5.1.1