Roblox Official Documentation: Where to Find It
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Roblox’s official developer documentation lives in one place — the Creator Hub at create.roblox.com/docs — and from there a direct path leads to machine-readable versions of everything it contains.
This piece isn’t a retelling of what’s inside the docs — it’s a map: where to look when something’s unclear, and how to get the documentation not for reading with your eyes, but for feeding into tools.
What the Creator Hub is
The Creator Hub is Roblox’s official section for developers. It gathers the engine documentation and a separate section with the Luau scripting language reference at create.roblox.com/docs/luau. This is the source to rely on first: third-party wikis and guides can lag behind the official pages or interpret things their own way, while the Creator Hub is a direct reference straight from Roblox.
For someone who simply plays games on Roblox, the Creator Hub won’t be needed at all — it’s a reference specifically for people building something on Roblox: writing scripts, configuring the engine, or reaching Roblox from outside the client through cloud interfaces.
Machine-readable documentation indexes
Beyond the regular pages meant for people to read, Roblox publishes separate documentation indexes in the llms.txt format — text files listing the documentation’s structure, built for machine processing. There are several of these indexes, each covering its own slice of the documentation:
| Index | Address | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| General | create.roblox.com/docs/llms.txt | The entire Creator Hub documentation |
| Engine reference | create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/llms.txt | Roblox’s Engine Reference |
| Cloud interfaces | create.roblox.com/docs/cloud/llms.txt | Roblox’s cloud interfaces reference |
So if what you need is specifically the engine reference, you don’t have to sift through the whole general index — there’s a separate, narrower file for that.
Any docs page — also in Markdown
Separately, Roblox offers a way to get any documentation page not as regular HTML, but as plain text in Markdown format. It works through a suffix added to the address:
- Take the regular address of the documentation page on create.roblox.com/docs/…
- Add
.mdright at the end of that address. - Open the resulting address — instead of the formatted HTML page, its plain Markdown text version loads.
This applies to documentation pages in general, not just to the index files themselves. That means you can also append .md to any single page explaining a specific engine function or Luau method, and get the same text stripped of the site’s layout — menu headers, side navigation, and the rest of the formatting.
Why this matters for an everyday developer
If you’re writing scripts for a game in Roblox Studio, day to day you need exactly the regular Creator Hub pages — that’s where the Luau reference and the engine’s function descriptions live. If you’re just taking your first steps in Studio, it’s worth going through a basic guide first and only then turning to the Creator Hub for the details of specific functions. We covered first steps in Roblox Studio separately.
The llms.txt indexes and the Markdown page versions come in handy more when it’s a tool processing the documentation rather than a person — for example, when you need to pull the engine reference as one whole file instead of page by page.
What is not officially stated
- How many pages or sections make up each of the three indexes — Roblox doesn’t publish that.
- Whether separate llms.txt indexes exist for other parts of the Creator Hub besides the engine and cloud interfaces — it’s not officially stated.
- How often these indexes are updated relative to the documentation pages themselves — not stated.
- Whether any limits apply to automated downloading of these files by third-party tools — Roblox doesn’t explain this.
In short
Roblox’s entire official developer documentation lives in the Creator Hub at create.roblox.com/docs, and for machine processing it offers three separate llms.txt indexes plus a Markdown version of every page through the .md suffix.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Roblox's official documentation for developers?
In the Creator Hub at create.roblox.com/docs. It gathers the engine reference, the Luau scripting language documentation, and the cloud interfaces reference in one place, instead of scattering them across third-party sites.
What is llms.txt in Roblox documentation?
A text index file of the documentation meant for machine processing rather than human reading. Roblox publishes it at create.roblox.com/docs/llms.txt.
Is there a separate machine-readable index for the Roblox engine reference?
Yes. The engine reference has its own index at create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/llms.txt, narrower than the general index and limited to the engine.
Where is the documentation index for Roblox's cloud interfaces?
At create.roblox.com/docs/cloud/llms.txt. This is a separate index specifically for cloud interfaces, not for the whole Creator Hub documentation.
How do you get a Roblox documentation page as Markdown?
Add the .md suffix right at the end of the page's address on create.roblox.com/docs. Instead of the formatted HTML page, its plain Markdown text version loads.