Installing Add ons

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

Example addons.json:

{
  "addons": [
    {
      "name": "YouTube w/o Repository",
      "type": "addon",
      "section": false,
      "plugin": "plugin.video.youtube",
      "url": "http://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/plugin.video.youtube/plugin.video.youtube-6.5.2.zip",
      "repository": "",
      "repositoryxml": "",
      "repositoryurl": "",
      "icon": "",
      "adult": false,
      "description": "The official YouTube add-on."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spotify w/ Repository",
      "type": "addon",
      "section": false,
      "plugin": "plugin.audio.spotify",
      "url": "https://kodi-community-addons.github.io/repository.marcelveldt/plugin.audio.spotify/",
      "repository": "repository.marcelveldt",
      "repositoryxml": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kodi-community-addons/repository.marcelveldt/master/addons.xml",
      "repositoryurl": "https://kodi-community-addons.github.io/repository.marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt/",
      "icon": "",
      "adult": false,
      "description": "The official Spotify add-on."
    },
    {
      "name": "Example Section",
      "section": true,
      "url": "url.to.json",
      "description": "An Example Section."
    }
  ]
}

For installing an add-on directly from a .zip, the name and url tags here are the only ones which are required. When installing from a repository, the name, url, repository, repositoryurl, and repositoryxml tags are all required. Any other tags can be left as "", null, or simply omitted. Not having mandatory tags will not create an error, but the incorrectly formatted entry will not be shown in the wizard.

Field	Description
name	The name that will show in the wizard
type	This can be either "addon", "skin", or "addonpack". Currently, only "addon" is supported.
section	This can be either true or false. If true, this entry will open a new section in the wizard.
plugin	The plugin id of the add-on to install
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 "section": true, then this should be a URL that points to a different addons.json file for the section.
repository	The plugin id of the repository to install from
repositoryxml	A URL that points to the 'addons.xml' file for the repository
respositoryurl	A URL that points to the folder containing the zipped repository
icon	A URL to an icon to be shown in Kodi. This must be a 512x512 pixel .png file.
fanart	A URL to the fanart to be shown in Kodi. This must be a 512x512 pixel .png file.
adult	Whether this add-on is an adult add-on. Must be either true or false.
description	A short description of the add-on

As of OpenWizard 1.2.0, this file has been converted from the "old" plaintext solution, to the "new" JSON format, which makes them far more flexible, but more syntactically oriented. To verify that your JSON files are formatted correctly, I recommend https://jsoneditoronline.org/.