Is it possible to publish plugins written in Python?

[PedroM]

I know this is not mentioned in the docs (Getting started with plugin development | Joplin)

I know I can write some scripts for example using joppy (Joppy: Joplin Client and Server API Wrapper in Python) or joplin-api (Joplin API - Python).

My question is more whether if I wrote a plugin in Python I could publish it to Joplin's plugin repository.

[laurent]

Joplin doesn't come with any Python runtime so it wouldn't work. Or if it does, using the local Python, it probably shouldn't and we may block it at some point.

Would it be possible instead to convert your code to TypeScript? (An LLM could do that easily) Or if Python is really required, I would recommend instead to create a third-party app that accesses Joplin via the data API

[PedroM]

Thanks Laurent.

Yeah, I imagined it wouldn't work after I asked.

I was thinking about picking up the Night Mode button feature request

Night Mode Button

I know there is a dark theme and you can easily change it in the options menu, but in my opinion, adding a dark mode theme button, is more accessible, I constantly find myself switching to dark mode in most of the programs I use at night. An implementation like this would be perfect! [Dark-mode] Thoughts? @bedwardly-down @PackElend @laurent

And maybe developing a plugin to define Global Search options - the idea is to allow to start global search with autocompleted rules (for example always excluding/including a notebook, tag, etc). It's based on this thread

[Feature request] archive notes

5 years later, but I think this is still an open point. I like the idea of excluding notes from searches, but as far as I understand this is not possible yet? Or am I missing something?

as If I define a tag 'archive' for example I'd like to always start global search with -tag:archive.

I don't know actually if these can be done with Python, I'd have to take a better look at the documentation of both Joppy and Joplin-API-Python.

If they do the best way forward is to convert to TypeScript using an LLM. I don't think I could make use of Joplin Data API as the plugins are mostly UI changes.