How can I get the name of a node used? I want to get its name by string

out of curiosity what do you plan on doing with this bit of information? Have you tried anything?

The name is stored in the dyn, so t he simple route would be to read the file as a txt and parse the data you want from there.

[image] Tom_Kunsman: out of curiosity what do you plan on doing with this bit of information? Have you tried anything? I do not want to write it manually as a string. My end goal is to export this data to excel.

This will do it for DynamoRevit: [image] import clr # Adding the DynamoRevitDS.dll module to work with the Dynamo API clr.AddReference('DynamoRevitDS') import Dynamo # access to the current Dynamo instance and workspace dynamoRevit = Dynamo.Applications.DynamoRevit() currentWorkspace = dynamoRe…

[image] john_pierson: DynamoRevit Many thanks @john_pierson , I was looking for that and specifically get the name of nodes as input in the Python script, I mean get the name of the nodes feeded into the node script

You’ll find your answer over on Dynamo API I’d say: DynamoVisualProgramming.Core 2.14.0.4641 Assemblies required to start a DynamoModel and execute DesignScript code. Contains the following files: 1) DynamoApplications.dll 2) DynamoCore.dll 3) DynamoInstallDetect…

Just out of curiosity, will it be possible to find out which nodes are throwing an error?

You can create a event to track element state of node in Dynamo.Graph.Nodes : Dead, Active, Warning, PersistentWarning, Error, AstBuildBroken, [Revit_f6gKcRoZHL] chuongmep/Warnamo/blob/5d413f760f0778f88647a9c972ecd9cf6d639804/src/WarningsViewExtension/WarningsWindowViewModel.cs#L188 …

here another example [image] Return Current Dynamo Workspace's Warnings Developers A workaround, just for the fun upside_down_face playing with Dynamo API Event (EvaluationCompleted) [get_Nodes_errors] Python code import clr import re import time import sys import Sys…

@chuongmep @c.poupin Thank you both! :slight_smile:

Get the name of a node

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c.poupin September 5, 2022, 10:29am 12

here another example

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Get the name of a node

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