profanity-plugins1
Overview
Manage plugins. Passing no arguments lists installed plugins and global plugins which are available for local installation. Global directory for Python plugins is /usr/local/share/profanity/plugins and for C Plugins is /usr/local/lib64/profanity/plugins.
Arguments
install [<path or URL>]
Install a plugin, or all plugins found in a directory (recursive), or download and install plugin (plugin name is based on basename). And loads it/them.
update [<path or URL>]
Uninstall and then install the plugin. Plugin name to update is basename.
uninstall [<plugin>]
Uninstall a plugin.
load [<plugin>]
Load a plugin that already exists in the plugin directory, passing no argument loads all found plugins. It will be loaded upon next start too unless unloaded.
unload [<plugin>]
Unload a loaded plugin, passing no argument will unload all plugins.
reload [<plugin>]
Reload a plugin, passing no argument will reload all plugins.
python_version
Show the Python interpreter version.
Examples
/plugins install /home/steveharris/Downloads/metal.py
/plugins install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/profanity-im/profanity-plugins/master/stable/sounds.py
/plugins update /home/steveharris/Downloads/metal.py
/plugins update https://raw.githubusercontent.com/profanity-im/profanity-plugins/master/stable/sounds.py
/plugins uninstall browser.py
/plugins load browser.py
/plugins unload say.py
/plugins reload wikipedia.py
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)