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🚀 Repositories

Meerschaum gives you the ability to easily install and create plugins. Refer to the guide below on how to install, write, and publish plugins.

Installing Plugins

To install plugins, run the install plugins command, followed by the names of the plugins you wish to install, for example: 

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install plugins noaa color

If you would like to install plugins from a private Meerschaum repository, you can specify from where you would like to download the plugin with the --repository or -r flag. For example, to install the plugin example from your private Meerschaum API api:myapi, you would execute:

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install plugins example -r api:myapi

Info

Any Meerschaum API instance can act as a Meerschaum repository, and the default repository is the public api.mrsm.io repository. Follow the steps below to change your default repository to a private repository:

  1. Open your configuration file with edit config. 
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    mrsm edit config
  2. Change value of meerschaum:default_repository to the Connector Keys of your repository. 
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    default_repository: api:myrepo

Hosting Plugins

If you've written or installed plugins, you can host them on your own private repository. You will need a user login to your private repostitory to host plugins. Replace the values in angle brackets (<>) with your own values.

  1. Create a user account on your Meerschaum instance with register user <username>.
    If you are connecting to an existing repository, skip to step 3.

  2. Start the API server with start api.

  3. Register and upload the plugin to your private repository with register plugin <plugin> --repo api:<label>.
    If you're uploading to your own machine, use api:local as the repository.

Using Plugins

How you use a plugin depends on its type: whether it's a data, action, or API plugin, and sometimes plugins can be all three.

To use a data plugin (e.g. noaa), bootstrap a pipe and choose the the plugin as the connector (e.g. plugin:noaa).

To use an action plugin, simply execute the new actions provided by the plugin. You can see the available actions with show actions.

To use an API plugin, launch the web API with start api.