diff --git a/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js b/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
index 99400d68fd..db20c16880 100644
--- a/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
+++ b/scripts/docs/gulp-tasks.js
@@ -31,6 +31,43 @@ module.exports = function(gulp, flags) {
       .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/ionic-site/docs/v2/dist'));
   })
 
+  gulp.task('docs.sass-variables', function() {
+    var fs = require('fs');
+    var gutil = require('gulp-util');
+    var es = require('event-stream');
+    var concat = require('gulp-concat');
+    var inspect = require('util').inspect;
+
+    var variables = [];
+    var outputFile = 'dist/ionic-site/docs/v2/data/sass.json';
+
+    // todo this is the right one
+    return gulp.src('ionic/**/*.scss')
+      .pipe(es.map(function(file, callback) {
+        // find $ declarations here, pass them along in the pipeline
+        var contents = file.contents.toString();
+
+        fs.createReadStream(file.path, {flags: 'r'})
+          .pipe(es.split())
+          .pipe(es.map(function (line, callback) {
+            //do something with the line
+            var firstChar = line.charAt(0);
+
+            if (firstChar == '$') {
+              var variableLine = line.split(":");
+              variables.push({
+                "variable": variableLine[0]
+              });
+            }
+            callback();
+          }));
+
+        callback();
+      }).on('end', function() {
+        gutil.log("Writing to file", gutil.colors.cyan(outputFile));
+        fs.writeFileSync(outputFile, JSON.stringify(variables));
+      }));
+  })
 
   gulp.task('docs.index', function() {
     var lunr = require('lunr');