Searchable Actions for Community Nodes

[Luca_Di_Fazio]

Describe the question

I’m building my own community node package, and I am wondering how to make actions searchable like this:

Base nodes in the N8N repository, as well as custom nodes manually added in ~/.n8n/custom/, do have this feature:

But as soon as the package is installed from the npm repository, it loses this feature:

How to make it display it always?

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.109.2
• Database (default: SQLite):
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04

[krisn0x]

Hey, I believe this happens because NPM ones end up in the node_modules folder and it’s not scanned for .js/.ts files (actions).

You can try installing them in a specific folder via NPM and then pointing to it in your env variables:

Specify location for your custom nodes | n8n Docs

[Luca_Di_Fazio]

So there is no way to do so for community nodes. That’s nonsense. Should I turn this into a GitHub issue?

[krisn0x]

This appears to be a missing feature for community nodes, so I would suggest opening a thread in Feature Requests . Sorry it’s not the expected answer

Would appreciate if you mark this as Solution