Load plugin from github

[mr-loop-1]

I was reading this page https://if.greensoftware.foundation/users/how-to-import-plugins in the docs and noticed that there is some way that plugins can be loaded directly from a github repo of a user.
I tried to do that with the unofficial-plugins repo but I am not able to make it work.

For example, if I want to load the teads-aws plugin from here instead of installing from npm, then what exactly should I put in the path property in manifest?

[mgriffin-scottlogic]

The Readme for https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if-plugin-template has some good information on this. You still need an npm install but you use the github repo path instead of a package name:

npm install -g https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if-unofficial-plugins

Then the manifest should be set like:

name: plugin-demo-git
description: loads plugin
tags: null
initialize:
  plugins:
    teads-aws:
      method: TeadsAWS
      path: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if-unofficial-plugins
      global-config:
        ...
...

[jmcook1186]

thanks @mgriffin-scottlogic!