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.. _sec-features-plugins:
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Plugins
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*******
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Starting with OctoPrint 1.2.0, there's now a plugin system in place which allows to individually
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extend OctoPrint's functionality.
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Right now plugins can be used to extend OctoPrint's web interface, to execute specific tasks on server startup and
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shutdown, to provide custom (API) endpoints or whole user interfaces with special functionality, to react to system
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events or progress reports or to add support for additional slicers. More plugin types are planned for the future.
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.. _sec-features-plugins-available:
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Finding Plugins
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===============
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The official OctoPrint Plugin Repository can be found at `plugins.octoprint.org <http://plugins.octoprint.org>`_.
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Some plugins may also be found in the list provided in `the OctoPrint wiki <https://github.com/foosel/OctoPrint/wiki#plugins>`_
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and on the `OctoPrint organization Github page <https://github.com/OctoPrint>`_.
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.. _sec-features-plugins-installing:
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Installing Plugins
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==================
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Plugins can be installed either by unpacking them into one of the configured plugin folders (regularly those are
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``<octoprint source root>/plugins`` and ``<octoprint config folder>/plugins`` [#f1]_ or by installing them as regular python
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modules via ``pip`` [#f2]_.
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Please refer to the documentation of the plugin for installations instructions.
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For a plugin available on the Python Package Index (PyPi), the process is as simple as issuing a
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.. code-block:: bash
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pip install <plugin_name>
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For plugins not available on PyPi, you'll have to give ``pip`` an URL from which to install the package (e.g. the URL to
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a ZIP file of the current master branch of a Github repository hosting a plugin, or even a ``git+https`` URL), example:
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.. code-block:: bash
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pip install https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint-Growl/archive/master.zip
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See `the pip install documentation <http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/pip_install.html>`_ for what URL
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types are possible.
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.. _sec-features-plugins-developing:
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Developing Plugins
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==================
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See :ref:`Developing Plugins <sec-plugins>`.
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.. rubric:: Footnotes
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.. [#f1] For Linux that will be ``~/.octoprint/plugins``, for Windows it will be ``%APPDATA%/OctoPrint/plugins`` and for
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Mac ``~/Library/Application Support/OctoPrint``
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.. [#f2] Make sure to use the exact same Python installation for installing the plugin that you also used for
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installing & running OctoPrint. For OctoPi this means using ``~/oprint/bin/pip`` for installing plugins
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instead of just ``pip``.
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