While developing w3af, we realized the need of fast and easy way to execute the same steps over and over, so the script functionality was born. w3af can run a script file using the -s argument. Script files are text files with one w3af_console command on each line. An example script file would look like this:
plugins
output text_file
output config text_file
set output_file output-w3af.txt
set verbose True
back
Note
Scripts are great for running periodic scans against your site using cron!
Note
Example script files can be found inside the scripts/ directory.
A VIM syntax file for w3af script editing is provided and maintained by the project development team.