Custom tools

Writing custom tools

Dataset Explorer allows you to write custom Python tools so that you can instantly test your own processing pipeline on your data. To do so you simply need to create a class that inherits the BasePlugin class and complies with the tools guidelines.

Registering your tools

All python files that define tools must be placed either at ~/.DatasetExplorer/plugins, or at any directory listed in the environment variable DATASET_EXPLORER_PLUGINS (separated by :).