Blender Addon Installer

Quickly install Blender addons from Copied Github links or other links or filepath.

Location

TopBar > Edit > Install Addon

Features

• Smart Extraction Allows to install addons from ill-formatted files
• Automatically pastes copied link
• Auto enable installed addons
• Overwrite detection
• Quotations are allowed in path (eg. "path")
• Install from local .py or .zip files
• Install from links of .py or .zip files
• Install from https://github.com/ links
• Github Branches are auto detected
• Auto detect single .py file from Github (No need to click raw button)

Quick Installation

Run the following script from Blender.

import os
import tempfile
import urllib.request

import bpy

url = "https://github.com/JayReigns/Blender_Addon_Installer/archive/refs/heads/main.zip"

# Download zip to temp file.
temp_zip = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "Blender_Addon_Installer.zip")
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, temp_zip)

# Install addon using Blender API.
bpy.ops.preferences.addon_install(filepath=temp_zip, overwrite=True)
bpy.ops.preferences.addon_enable(module="Blender_Addon_Installer-main")

Other Addons

• API Browser : Browse through the python api via Blender user interface