Elder Scrolls Online Commadline Addon Manager

Elder Scrolls Online addon manager and a Tamriel Trade Centre price table updater.

MIT License

It is recommended that you back up your ESO live profile before using banana in case you want to revert back.

On Windows, press Windows Key + e to open a file explorer and enter the following path in the address bar:

%HOME%\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\

or on Windows 11

Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\

Make a copy of the live folder and rename it to something meaningful like old or backup.

Usage

Follow the installation instructions for your platform:

• Windows
• Linux

On first run, the addons.yaml file will be created in your ESO live directory. It will look similar to the following:

addons:
- https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info7-LibAddonMenu.html
- https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1245-TamrielTradeCentre.html
- https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1146-LibCustomMenu.html

Add the ESOUI url for each additional addon you wish to keep updated. Make sure to prefix each URL line with a dash and a space (- ).

Windows Installation

Install the latest Python 3 using the installer provided by python.org.

Open Windows Terminal or any windows command prompt and navigate to this project. Use the Python package manager PIP to install eso-banana.

cd .\eso-banana\
pip install .

Once the project is installed to python's packages you may invoke the addon script with the following command:

eso-banana-script.exe

To schedule a periodic background run of eso-banana, open Powershell as a user and enter the following commands.

$Command = (Get-Command "eso-banana-script.exe").Source
$Action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute $Command -Argument "--verbose"
$Trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Daily -At 11am
$Settings = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable -StartWhenAvailable -RunOnlyIfIdle
Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName "eso-banana" -Action $Action -Trigger $Trigger -Settings $Settings -Description "Elder Scrolls Online addon manager and a Tamriel Trade Centre price table updater."

To check to make sure the task is registered correctly, enter Get-ScheduledTask and check that the first entry looks similar:

TaskPath                                TaskName                          State
--------                                --------                          -----
\                                       eso-banana                        Ready

Windows Unschedule

Only run the following command if you wish to remove scheduled run of eso-banana.

To remove the schedule, use the Unregister-ScheduledTask command:

Unregister-ScheduledTask eso-banana

Press enter to confirm removal.

Linux Installation

Install python3 and pip3, the following instructions are for Debian.

sudo apt install python3-pip
cd ./eso-banana/
pip3 install .

Once the project is installed to python's packages you may invoke the addon script with the following command:

eso-banana-script

To schedule a periodic background run of eso-banana can be performed with the crontab command:

crontab -e

Add the following line to your crontab.

0 11 * * * eso-banana-script --verbose

Linux Unschedule

Only run the following command if you wish to remove scheduled run of eso-banana.

To remove the schedule, delete the following line from your crontab -e.

0 11 * * * eso-banana-script --verbose