# Add category url to palette manager

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-category-url-to-palette-manager/134>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [13 May 2018 01:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-category-url-to-palette-manager/134 "2018-05-13T01:44:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![gbiv4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gbiv4/32/90_2.png) [@gbiv4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gbiv4)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2018 01:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-category-url-to-palette-manager/134/1 "2018-05-13T01:44:55Z")

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Hi all,  
I’m wanting to add my own nodes that I host somewhere like github, to an instance of node-red.  
I saw the [Palette management UI design wiki](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/wiki/Design:-Palette-Management-UI) and one of the [feature requests/design items describes configuring the available catalogs](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/wiki/Design:-Palette-Management-UI#palette-management-ui). This looks really close to what I need, ie create a catalog file alongside my nodes and specify this url via the UI but it looks like the initial implementation will do/does this by hardcoding something in the setting.js file. I’ve looked for some working examples of this but haven’t had any luck. Has anyone done this successfully? Specifically, how would I configure this if my category file was hosted on github and similarly so were my nodes?  
How about if I my node-red instance was running in a container on some cloud provider (azure,gc,aws)?

Thanks for any advice/pointers/help in advance  
G

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**Author:** ![gbiv4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gbiv4/32/90_2.png) [@gbiv4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gbiv4)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2018 03:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-category-url-to-palette-manager/134/2 "2018-05-13T03:49:07Z")

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Actually, I found that I can use the API to achieve what I was describing:+1:t5:

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**Author:** ![Devbrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Devbrat](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Devbrat)\
**Post date:** [2 April 2019 04:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-category-url-to-palette-manager/134/3 "2019-04-02T04:36:25Z")

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Hi, Can you please tell how you did?