[help] render user documentation once on startup

Currently we have two kinds of user documentation:

* the about page[1] which is written in HTML and part of the web
  application and can therefore link instance-specific pages
  (like e.g. the preferences) via Jinja variables

* the Sphinx documentation[2] which is written in reStructuredText
  and cannot link instance-specific pages since it doesn't know
  which instance the user is using

The plan is to integrate the user documentation currently in Sphinx
into the application, so that it can also link instance specific pages.
We also want to enable the user documentation to be translated.

This commit implements the first step in this endeavor (see #722).

[1]: searx/templates/__common__/about.html
[2]: docs/user/ (currently served at https://docs.searxng.org/user/)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index f509fea24..099a42996 100755
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ from searx import (
     get_setting,
     settings,
     searx_debug,
+    user_help,
 )
 from searx.data import ENGINE_DESCRIPTIONS
 from searx.results import Timing, UnresponsiveEngine
@@ -867,7 +868,7 @@ def __get_translated_errors(unresponsive_engines: Iterable[UnresponsiveEngine]):
 @app.route('/about', methods=['GET'])
 def about():
     """Render about page"""
-    return render('about.html')
+    return render('about.html', help=user_help.HELP)
 
 
 @app.route('/autocompleter', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
@@ -1359,6 +1360,7 @@ werkzeug_reloader = flask_run_development or (searx_debug and __name__ == "__mai
 if not werkzeug_reloader or (werkzeug_reloader and os.environ.get("WERKZEUG_RUN_MAIN") == "true"):
     plugin_initialize(app)
     search_initialize(enable_checker=True, check_network=True, enable_metrics=settings['general']['enable_metrics'])
+    user_help.render(app)
 
 
 def run():