How to find the ID of an installed add-on?

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@Ozymandias_01

I want to add a main menu item that will launch an add-on but I can’t seem to find how to get the add-on ID.

So do I understand you comments in the other thread that the “ID” you were looking for was the textual ID and not the numerical ID from the database?

@Ozymandias_01

I asked elsewhere how to find an add-on ID but got a fairly unsatisfactory answer

If so the “solution” for this thread is in

@joakim_s

You find it where you find it for all other plugins, in the plugins addon.xml,