AutoImport

A Playnite library plugin that automatically scans your folders for game executables

Features

• Scans each configured folder and its immediate subfolders for .exe files.
• Opens a selection window so you can import or ignore each result.
• Skips games already present in the Playnite library.
• Skips common non-game executables whose names contain uninstall, setup, config, or crash.
• Names a game from its folder, with the executable name as a fallback, and strips versions, tags, and common suffixes.
• Keeps a block list of folder paths, file paths, and file-name patterns so ignored items stay out of later scans.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. Extract the archive and copy the AutoImport folder into the Playnite extensions directory:

• Desktop mode: %AppData%\Playnite\Extensions\
• Portable: <PlayniteInstallPath>\Extensions\

3. Restart Playnite.

Configuration

Open Extensions → Extension settings → Libraries → AutoImport.

Scan folders: Enter one full path per line, or separate paths with commas. Only that folder and the folders directly inside it are scanned.

C:\Games
D:\GOG Games

A scan runs when Playnite starts. To scan again, use Reload games list → AutoImport. Check Import or Ignore for each result, then click Import Selected. Cancel leaves the library and the block list unchanged.

Block list: Type an entry and click Add. A path with a drive letter is stored as a path. Anything else is stored as a regular expression and matched against the file name only, case-insensitively. Invalid patterns are rejected. Remove an entry from the list to scan it again.

Block a whole folder. Every executable directly in that folder is skipped:

C:\Games\Redist

Block one file:

C:\Games\Hades\CrashHandler.exe

Block every matching file name under the scan folders. For example, unins\d+ matches unins000.exe and unins001.exe wherever they are found:

unins\d+

You can know more about Regexes here.