Documentation request: How to browse installed npe2 functions (from python)

[haesleinhuepf]

Hi all,

as proposed by @Czaki, I'm opening an issue here related to a discussion on image.sc:
https://forum.image.sc/t/napari-plugin-search-not-finding-certain-plugins/75558/3

It would be great if there was a page documenting how one can programmatically go through all installed npe2-compatible plugins. Btw. I implemented this in the napari-assistant:

https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-assistant/blob/689462e1ed20989763147004b7fea3abfc3efb53/napari_assistant/_categories.py#L444

Maybe some parts of that code could become part of npe2 itself to make this easier.

Thanks!

Best,
Robert

[tlambert03]

the command for npe2 list would point you to the code