--- /dev/null
+#/usr/bin/env bash
+# vim: sw=4 ts=4 noet :
+
+#==================================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Nokia
+# Copyright (c) 2020 AT&T Intellectual Property.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#==================================================================================
+
+# Build the user doc in ../library and if there are changes publish it into
+# the scraper (../../../docs) directory.
+
+sdir="../../../docs" # the scraper dir
+
+if [[ ! -d $sdir ]]
+then
+ echo "cannot find scraper directory: $sdir"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+set -e
+cd ../library
+make -B user.rst
+
+new_m5=$( md5sum user.rst | sed 's/ .*//' )
+old_md5=$( md5sum $sdir/user-guide.rst | sed 's/ .*//' )
+if [[ $new_m5 != $old_m5 ]]
+then
+ echo "publishing user-guide.rst"
+ cp user.rst $sdir/user-guide.rst
+fi