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🌸 NAME 🌸

/plugins — bestie, this is the Profanity /plugins command. that's it, that's the name 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so. You wanna manage plugins? This is the girl for the job. ✨

If you pass no arguments at all, she'll list out the installed plugins plus the global plugins that are available for local installation. iykyk 🫶

And for the record, the global directories she's looking at are:

  • /usr/local/share/profanity/plugins for Python plugins 🐍
  • /usr/local/lib64/profanity/plugins for C plugins 👑
lowkey important — those are two different folders, don't mix them up bestie 😭

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/plugins

/plugins install [<path or URL>]

/plugins update [<path or URL>]

/plugins uninstall [<plugin>]

/plugins unload [<plugin>]

/plugins load [<plugin>]

/plugins reload [<plugin>]

/plugins python_version

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • install [<path or URL>] — Install a plugin, or literally every plugin found in a directory (recursive, she goes deep 🦋), or download and install a plugin (the plugin name is based on basename). Then it loads it/them. obsessed.
  • update [<path or URL>] — Uninstall and then install the plugin. The plugin name to update is the basename. it's giving glow-up 💅
  • uninstall [<plugin>] — Uninstall a plugin. bye babes 👋
  • load [<plugin>] — Load a plugin that already exists in the plugin directory. Passing no argument loads all the found plugins. Heads up: it'll also be loaded upon next start too, unless you unload it. no cap 🫶
  • unload [<plugin>] — Unload a loaded plugin. Passing no argument will unload all plugins. all of them. periodt 💀
  • reload [<plugin>] — Reload a plugin. Passing no argument will reload all plugins. refresh queen 🌈
  • python_version — Show the Python interpreter version. she's just here to spill the tea on her Python 🐍✨

🔥 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

like. copy paste and go bestie ✨

and that's the whole vibe check, ok love u byeee 💜 this was the man(1) page for the Profanity XMPP client, version 0.18.2, dated 2026-06-08 — main character energy, xoxo 🎀🦋👑

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