# Ansible-Playbook List All Variables: Plugin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-list-all-variables-plugin/17405 "2015-01-30T16:29:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@Justin\_Lee](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Justin_Lee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-list-all-variables-plugin/17405/1 "2015-01-30T16:29:34Z")
Hi, I’m new to this (first time in code contribution). I’ve modified my ansible-playbook to include an option to list all variables in the same way it can list all tasks. So something like: ansible-playbook playbook.yml --listvars It will parse all the variables used in each play. I’ve been wondering how I would contribute the code back. Should I do pull request? Or create a feature/bug label on github? Or should this be a plugin? Should I fork it instead? Or is it already in development? Sorry for asking so many newbie questions. Justin ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@Justin\_Lee](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Justin_Lee)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-list-all-variables-plugin/17405/2 "2015-01-31T21:00:50Z")
Okay. I’ve removed styling changes and submitted by pull request. [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10143](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10143) Justin ---
**Author:** ![Dann\_Bohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Dann\_Bohn](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dann_Bohn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-playbook-list-all-variables-plugin/17405/3 "2015-01-31T22:03:31Z")
very cool. I’ve been using an emit\_vars.yml playbook. love to see this baked in