# Metasploit Developer Documentation

*(last updated December 1, 2014)

Metasploit is actively supported by a community of hundreds of
contributors and thousands of users world-wide. As a result, the
accompanying documentation moves quite quickly.

The best source of documentation on Metasploit development is
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki. There are many
treasures there, such as:

  * [Evading Antivirus](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/Evading-Anti-Virus)
  * [How Payloads Work](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/How-payloads-work)
  * [How to use Datastore Options](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/How-to-use-datastore-options)
  * [How to write browser exploits with BES](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/How-to-write-a-browser-exploit-using-BrowserExploitServer)
  * [How to write a bruteforcer](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/How-to-use-Msf%3A%3AAuxiliary%3A%3AAuthBrute-to-write-a-bruteforcer)

...and many, many more.

## API Documentation

If you are looking for API documentation, you may run `rake yard` to
generate a navigatable view of the comment documentation used throughout
Metasploit, or visit https://rapid7.github.io/metasploit-framework/api
for a recently generated online version.

## Contributing

If you would like to contribute to the documentation effort, please see
http://yardoc.org/ for details on how to write YARD-compatible comments,
and send us a [Pull Request](https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pulls)
with your contribution.