Find ReferenceID of an AddIn using Python?

Question

I'm looking for a way to find the reference or globalid of an addin file using python.

To clarify, I'm looking for these

Does anyone know how to do that?

Thanks!

Hayden Welch · Answer

Are you talking about the addins that live in Local/ESRI/ArcGISPro/Toolboxes? If so that's actually the first step of initialization of arcpy:

# find add-ins toolbox modules
local_appdata = os.getenv('LOCALAPPDATA')
uuid_paths = []
module_paths = []
if local_appdata and os.path.exists(local_appdata):
    addin_toolbox_path = pathlib.Path(local_appdata).joinpath('ESRI', 'ArcGISPro', 'Toolboxes')
    if addin_toolbox_path.exists():
        uuid_paths = [pth.resolve() for pth in addin_toolbox_path.iterdir() if pth.is_dir()]
        module_paths = [f.glob('arcpy/*.py') for f in uuid_paths]

These are all deleted after they are checked for, but you could definitely just use this exact code to find them at any time.