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Installing Add ons

drinfernoo edited this page Dec 27, 2018 · 21 revisions

This file is used to provide the wizard the necessary information to install external add-ons, and is typically named addons.txt.

Example addons.xml:

name="YouTube w/o Repository"
plugin="plugin.video.youtube"
url="http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/plugin.video.youtube/plugin.video.youtube-6.2.3.zip"
repository="none"
repositoryxml="http://"
repositoryurl="http://"
icon="http://"
fanart="http://"
adult="no"
description="The official YouTube add-on."

name="Spotify w/ Repository"
plugin="plugin.audio.spotify"
url="https://marcelveldt.github.io/repository.marcelveldt/plugin.audio.spotify/"
repository="repository.marcelveldt"
repositoryxml="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml"
repositoryurl="https://marcelveldt.github.io/repository.marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/"
icon="http://"
fanart="http://"
adult="no"
description="The official Spotify add-on."

name="Section 1"
plugin="section"
url="url.to.textfile"
repository="none"
repositoryxml="http://"
repositoryurl="http://"
icon="http://"
fanart="http://"
adult="no"
description="A new section."

The fields in this file are all required.

Field Description
name The name that will show in the wizard
plugin The plugin id of the add-on to install. Use "section" to have this item open a new section.
url A url that points to the folder containing the zipped add-on. If installing directly, this should be a url pointing to the add-on .zip file. If plugin='section', then this should be a url that points to a different addons.txt file for the section.
repository The plugin id of the repository to install from. If installing directly, this should be set to "none".
repositoryxml A url that points to the 'addons.xml' file for the repository. If installing directly, this should be set to "http://".
respositoryurl A url that points to the folder containing the zipped repository. If installing directly, this should be set to "http://".
icon The icon to be shown in Kodi. This must be a 512x512 pixel .png file. Use "http://" for the default icon.
fanart The fanart to be shown in Kodi. This must be a 512x512 pixel .png file. Use "http://" for the default fanart.
adult Whether this add-on is an adult add-on. Must be either "yes" or "no".
description A short description of the add-on