diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/package.nix
index b3c1be993..3313105fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/package.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ runCommandLocal "docsets-python3-std" {
   cp -R ${python3.doc}/share/doc/* doc
   chmod -R u+w doc
 
-  doc2dash --index-page library/index.html doc/html
+  # `--parser ...` lets me inject my own module that doc2dash loads and delegates docset styling to
+  PYTHONPATH=${./.} doc2dash --parser sparse_sphinx_parser.InterSphinxParserLessNoise --index-page library/index.html doc/html
 
   mkdir -p $out/share/docsets
   cp -R *.docset $out/share/docsets
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/sparse_sphinx_parser.py b/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/sparse_sphinx_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69472efdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/docsets/python3-std/sparse_sphinx_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+from doc2dash.parsers.intersphinx import InterSphinxParser
+from doc2dash.parsers.types import EntryType
+
+class InterSphinxParserLessNoise(InterSphinxParser):
+    def convert_type(self, inv_type: str) -> EntryType | None:
+        # Sphinx is too noisy: we don't want page labels etc to drown out the actual API references
+        if inv_type.split(":")[-1] in [ "cmdoption", "doc", "envvar", "label", "macro", "opcode", "option", "term" ]:
+            return
+
+        return super().convert_type(inv_type)