Kodi Addon checker

This tool checks the Kodi repo for best practices and produces a report containing found problems and warnings.

It can also be used locally for detecting problems in your addons.

Features

Checks if artwork is available and if the size is as defined
Checks if all artworks(images/fanart/screenshot) are valid.
Checks if addon.xml and license file exists for an addon.
Checks if all xml files are valid.
Check if all the json files are valid.
Checks if the addon id in addon.xml matches with the folder name.
Checks if the addon uses the old strings.xml translation format.
Check if the addon uses the old language folders (English vs resource.language.en_gb).
Checks for various blacklisted strings.
Check for blacklisted filetypes.
Check for new dependencies present in addon.xml files.
Check the complexity of the entrypoint files for addon.
Check if addon already exists in any of lower repositories
Check if addon already exists in any of the upper repositories (with non-compatible python abi) with a lower version, thus preventing a user kodi migration
Check if addon is compatible with python3 or not
Check specific version attribute
Validate addon.xml against schemas
Check if files in addon are marked as executable or not.
Check for unused script.module addons
Check presence of extensions in addon dependencies.
Check for valid forum, source and website value in addon.xml
Check if all PO files are valid

All of the validation and checks are done according to the kodi addon rules

Installation

You will need Python3.

Then you can directly install it from pip package:

pip install kodi-addon-checker

For Developement

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/xbmc/addon-check

cd <path-to-cloned-repo>
Install the requirements:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Usage

If you are in add-on directory:
- Execute kodi-addon-checker
If you want to run it from any other directory
- Execute
```
kodi-addon-checker <path-to-addon>
```

You can use the tool with the following options:


--version                   version of the tool
--branch                    name of the branch the tool is to run on
--PR                        only when the tool is running on a pull request
--allow-folder-id-mismatch  allow the addon's folder name and id to mismatch
--reporter                  enable a reporter, this option can be used multiple times
--enable-debug-log          enable debug logging to kodi-addon-checker.log