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-For information about installing Scrapy see:
-
-* docs/intro/install.rst (local file)
-* https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html (online version)
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+For information about installing Scrapy see:
+
+* [Local docs](docs/intro/install.rst)
+* [Online docs](https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html)