How to Contribute to Violentmonkey

You can contribute to Violentmonkey in four ways listed on the project site: contributing code on GitHub, helping with translation, improving the documentation, and writing articles about Violentmonkey. These are open, non-monetary contribution paths, so you can pick the one that matches your skills without needing any special account beyond the platform each task runs on.

The four contribution paths

The official site groups contribution into these areas:

• Code — contribute to the project on GitHub.
• Translation — help translate the extension.
• Documentation — improve the docs.
• Writing — write articles about Violentmonkey.

Contributing code via GitHub

Code contributions go through the project's GitHub repository. If you want to work on the extension itself, this is the path to take. The site links to GitHub as the place to contribute code, and also hosts release downloads there.

Before writing code, it helps to know what the extension actually does: Violentmonkey is an open source userscript manager that provides userscript support for browsers. It lets you customize web pages and automate work, and it can sync data to Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or a WebDAV service, including syncing between different browsers.

One detail worth keeping in mind if you touch anything browser-related: the note on the site says Violentmonkey in the Chrome Web Store has been updated to ManifestV3. If your change interacts with extension APIs, that context matters.

Helping with translation

Translation is listed as a separate contribution path. If you're fluent in a language the extension doesn't fully cover, this is a way to contribute without writing code. The site doesn't spell out the exact translation workflow, so the practical first step is to look at the project's GitHub presence, where translation work for open source projects of this kind is typically coordinated.

Improving the documentation

Documentation improvements are explicitly welcomed. This can mean clarifying existing docs or filling gaps. Because the site itself is fairly short, docs contributions are a natural fit if you've used the extension and noticed something that was hard to understand.

Writing articles about Violentmonkey

The site also invites people to write articles about Violentmonkey. This is the lowest-barrier path: if you've used the extension and can explain it clearly, you can contribute by publishing a guide, tutorial, or review.

Choosing the right path for you

A safety note that applies to all contributors

The site includes a warning that's relevant whether you're contributing or just using the extension: Violentmonkey does not contain any ads and does not modify web pages automatically. Any changes and modifications on sites are done by installed scripts. Because of that, the site advises installing only scripts you trust. If you write articles or docs, passing this point along accurately is part of doing the job well.

Getting started

The site's own entry points are Get Started and GitHub. For contribution specifically, GitHub is the hub for code, and by extension the most likely place to find where translation and documentation work is coordinated. The site also links to GitHub Releases and a page for viewing all versions, including Beta and MV2, which is useful if you want to test a change against a specific build.

In short: pick the path that matches your skills, start from the project's GitHub, and keep the "install only scripts you trust" guidance in mind when you write about or document the extension.