FastAPI keeps generating local index.html*

I deploy a FastAPI service with docker (see my docker-compose.yml and app).

My service directory gets filled with files index.html, index.html.1, index.html.2,... that all contain

They seem to be generated any time the docker healthcheck pings the service.

How can I get rid of these?

PS: I had to put a screenshot, because Lemmy stripped my HTML in the code quote.

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This is a FastAPI feature - Autogenerated documentation using Swagger.

You can turn it off by setting docs_url=None

In your linked main.py:

app = FastAPI( title="IslabTweet", description=__doc__, docs_url="/", # change this to None to disable the docs version=VERSION, )

Hope this helps!
- That's weird, I have never noticed any kind of .html files generation when accessing the docs and I have worked with F.Api for some time now, also can't seem to find ang mention of this generation in the docs (that it actually writes files).
  
  Also isn't the default doc path /docs (/redoc)
  
  Ok, that was stupid. Doing healthcheck with wget, does what wget does: it downloads the result. I had to add --spider to stop doing that
  
  wget -nv --spider http://localhost:8000 || exit 1
- The default is /docs
- Well, I do need OpenAPI (Swagger). What I don't need is the generation of thousands of equal static files. Out of all these generated files, index.html would've been enough and I don't need index.html.1, etc.
In your docker-compose.yml file, your healthcheck for fastapi uses wget, which saves the file to disk by default. Add --spider to make it behave correctly. Your nginx service has the correct command.

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