Search ESO addons by what you need them to do
Not by name. Type the job — “harvest nodes on the map”, “writ crafting”, “guild store prices” — and this searches the authors' own descriptions of all 3,170 addons in the ESOUI catalogue (3,168 of them have a description to search) across 38 categories.
Anchors for every claim on this page: the live game runs API 101050 (Update 50, live 2026-06-08). Update 51 is on the public test server now and is scheduled to go live on PC/Mac on September 28, 2026. Feed retrieved 2026-08-22 · corpus snapshot 2026-08-22.
Try: harvest nodes on the mapwrit craftingdamage meterinventory searchguild store pricesskyshardsquest trackerbanking
Can an addon even do this? — what the game lets an addon touch
Some asks cannot be met by any addon, however it is written, because the game's addon API has no function for them. Measured from the official API documentation for the live build (API 101050, read 2026-08-22):
- Your own files. The live API contains no function that reads or writes a file on your disk — zero matches for file-open, file-read or file-write calls in the whole documentation. An addon can only persist data through the game's own SavedVariables mechanism. So “play my own music”, “import this spreadsheet”, “read my screenshots” are not addon jobs; they need an external program.
- Audio. The only sound call is
PlaySound(soundName), which takes the game's own sound names; there is no call that plays an audio file you supply. An addon can trigger, silence or re-order the game's existing sounds and music, nothing outside them. - The internet. No HTTP, socket or download function exists. The only outward reach is a fixed list of approved URLs the game itself may open in your browser. Anything “live” (prices, guild data) reaches an addon as a file dropped next to it by an external program and read at the next UI reload.
- Acting for you. Movement, attacking, blocking, dodging, mounting and sending chat are private API (173 functions) — an addon cannot call them; inventory use and item moves are protected (40) — callable only from a direct keypress. See what addons are and are not allowed to do.
When a search returns nothing, the page says so rather than showing you the nearest thing: an addon that plays the game's music is not an addon that plays yours, and this site will not present one as the other.
What is being searched, exactly
Three fields per addon: its name, the first 160 characters of the author's own description as published on ESOUI, and its category. Every word you type has to appear somewhere in those three, and results are ordered by downloads in the last month — the busiest first, which is a proxy for “still in use”, not for “best”.
Each result carries the same dated verdict as the addon's own page, so a search result tells you whether the thing you found still works before you click it. Libraries are flagged: a library is installed only because another addon needs it and never appears as a feature.
The search runs in your browser against a static index; nothing you type is sent anywhere. Prefer to browse? Every category is listed on the addon hub, and there is a folder index for identifying a folder you already have.