diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 79e02f684f5e5b5ded47fd34b49c1e4aa92e0855..374679ad9e64c5440f74cf82e6fee85ac2c7b085 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ html: octez-gen docexes-gen
 	${MAKE} sphinx
 
 # Make all the doc in a single text file
-octezdoc.txt: octez-gen docexes-gen
+$(BUILDDIR)/octezdoc.txt: $(BUILDDIR)/index.html
 	rm -fr $(BUILDDIRTXT)
 	(echo ':orphan:'; echo ''; cat ../CHANGES.rst) > CHANGES-dev.rst
 	touch CHANGES-dev.rst
 	@$(SPHINXBUILD) --builder text "$(SOURCEDIR)" $(BUILDDIRTXT) $(SPHINXOPTS)
-	find $(BUILDDIRTXT)	 -name "*.txt" | xargs cat >$@
+	$(SCRIPTSDIR)/octezdoc.sh >$@
 
 # Build the manuals for a given protocol
 %/octez-client.html:
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ fmt: black
 
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
-	@-rm -Rf "$(BUILDDIR)" linkcheck odoc.log
+	@-rm -Rf "$(BUILDDIR)" "$(BUILDDIRTXT)" linkcheck odoc.log
 	@-rm -f $(ERRDOCEXE) $(RPCDOCEXE) $(P2PDOCEXE)
 	@-rm -Rf api/errors.rst developer/metrics.csv user/node-config.json alpha/rpc.rst shell/rpc.rst shell/p2p_api.rst user/default-acl.json CHANGES-dev.rst developer/rollup_metrics.csv octezdoc.txt
 	@-rm -Rf api/octez-*.html api/octez-*.txt paris/octez-*.html alpha/octez-*.html quebec/octez-*.html
diff --git a/docs/scripts/octezdoc-excludes.txt b/docs/scripts/octezdoc-excludes.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d872fbe98ae411944dee91a91cd5850f53253c2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/scripts/octezdoc-excludes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+^active/cli-commands.txt
+^active/rpc.txt
+^api/api-inline.txt
+^api/errors.txt
+^developer/openmetrics.txt
+^developer/rollup_metrics.txt
+^shell/p2p_api.txt
+^.*/cli-commands.txt
+^shell/rpc.txt
+^alpha/
+^releases/
+^protocols/
+^developer/merkle-proof-formats/
diff --git a/docs/scripts/octezdoc.sh b/docs/scripts/octezdoc.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed3fcbfcfb476b8e76ff4844cca157a1587da157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/scripts/octezdoc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Generate a single-file text version of the documentation usable by bots
+
+MYDIR="$(dirname "$0")"
+BUILDDIR="$MYDIR"/../_build
+
+# Extract order of pages from the HTML root index,
+# then exclude blacklisted pages
+grep 'toctree-l\d' "$BUILDDIR"/index.html |
+  sed 's|^.*href="||; s|.html">.*$|.txt|' |
+  grep -v -f "$MYDIR"/octezdoc-excludes.txt |
+  while read -r f; do
+    cat _build_txt/"$f"
+    # insert blank line at the end of each file
+    echo ""
+  done
diff --git a/scripts/ci/doc_publish.sh b/scripts/ci/doc_publish.sh
index 8d1c2e335161d909095ae034280c7be616430ede..ef0f17950fb519b166fd3bae1889a953a5161e0b 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/doc_publish.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/doc_publish.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ set -e
 cd "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}" || exit 1
 
 if [ "${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}" == "master" ]; then
+  make -C docs _build/octezdoc.txt
+
   git clone --depth 5 git@gitlab.com:"${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}"/"${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}".gitlab.io gitlab.io
   rsync --recursive --links --perms --delete --exclude=.doctrees --exclude={{main,alpha,zero}net,master}/index.html docs/_build/ gitlab.io/public/
   cd gitlab.io || exit 2