Blender Improved Node Search

Empowering the node tree search by providing various search options and highlighting the found nodes or occurrences in a node group.

The tool is located in the node tree sidebar (N-Panel) in the Tool panel. The extension replaces the default CTRL+F search shortcut, you can customize the shortcut in Blender Preferences. The extension works in Shader, Geometry, Compositor and any other node tree.

Search options

The extension brings text search inside multiple node properties. Text search has also option for regular expression search. For geometry nodes you can also search through attributes.

Option Description

Name Search in names of nodes

Label Search in labels of nodes 

Type Search in the blidname property

Additionally the extension can help you with identifying problems in your node trees using non text search options.

Option Description

Disconnected Nodes Finds nodes that do not connect to anything, but have outputs

Missing Image Nodes Finds image nodes that do not have image or whose image is invalid

Missing Node Groups Finds node groups with empty node trees (Missing DNA block error)

Found nodes can be selected, or navigated one by one using the Select Found, Previous and Next buttons.

Display options

Found nodes are highlighted by a border if onscreen or a circle indicating location of the found node is displayed if the node is off-screen. The overlay can be toggled on and off by the Bulb Icon next to Search

Occurrences in node group are indicated by a number displayed next to the node. The display can be customized by changing the Highlight Color, Border Attenuation and Text Size.

Display options are located in the Display subpanel.

Extension is also available on the official extensions platform and on Github.