When node-scraper runs as an entry point script, Python adds venv/bin (or venv\Scripts on Windows) to sys.path[0]

This breaks importlib.metadata.distributions() from discovering editable installs which results in xternal plugins from packages like amd-error-scraper weren't being found

Author: alexandraBara

nodescraper/cli/cli.py

@@ -124,8 +124,16 @@ def discover_external_plugins():
     return extra_pkgs
 
 
+# Fix sys.path[0] if it's the venv/bin directory to avoid breaking editable install discovery
+_original_syspath0 = sys.path[0]
+if _original_syspath0.endswith("/bin") or _original_syspath0.endswith("\\Scripts"):
+    sys.path[0] = ""
+
 extra_pkgs = discover_external_plugins()
 
+# Restore original sys.path[0]
+sys.path[0] = _original_syspath0
+
 
 def build_parser(
     plugin_reg: PluginRegistry,