René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[DOC/BUILD] add ability to selectively build docs","articleBody":"\u003e Looks like pandas’ approach is to [loop through the docs and exclude everything except the one you ask for](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/76c39d547c42644f8ce42801d696334cd3e199a2/doc/source/conf.py#L96-L117).  This is in the `conf.py` and the `make.py` sets the relevant environment variable.  So probably could be done with our existing make files - though a python make script might remove the need for separate Windows and Linux make files?\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @rcomer in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/24897#issuecomment-1374527515_\r\n      \r\nThanks @rcomer - something like that seems like it would be really helpful for us.  I may play with it, but if anyone else w/ more sphinx experience wants to give it a shot, I think it'd be a pretty worthwhile project.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jklymak","@type":"Person","name":"jklymak"},"datePublished":"2023-01-07T20:54:53.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/24906/matplotlib/issues/24906"}