# How to define AWS API documentation?

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-define-aws-api-documentation/1773>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-define-aws-api-documentation/1773 "2017-04-27T15:35:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jkristia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jkristia](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jkristia)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-define-aws-api-documentation/1773/1 "2017-04-27T15:35:19Z")

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AWS API Gateway has a documentation option for a method.  
Is it possible to set this documentation through .yml?. Using the ‘description’ tag does not add the description to the api method.

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**Author:** ![sime](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/sime/32/230_2.png) [@sime](https://forum.serverless.com/u/sime)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-define-aws-api-documentation/1773/2 "2017-05-02T18:52:48Z")

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You want to take a look at this plugin [https://github.com/9cookies/serverless-aws-documentation](https://github.com/9cookies/serverless-aws-documentation)

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**Author:** ![jkristia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jkristia](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jkristia)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-define-aws-api-documentation/1773/3 "2017-05-02T19:33:45Z")

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Thank you, this seems to do what I’m looking for. I will give it a try