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How can i get the name of the collection where an object belongs and store the name of that collection into a variable so i can use it later to unlink the object from that collection

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  • $\begingroup$ Objects don't "belong" to a single collection, they may be linked in several collections simultaneously. They may even be in different collections in do scenes at the same time $\endgroup$
    – Duarte Farrajota Ramos ♦
    Oct 8, 2022 at 17:27

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Use bpy.types.Object.users_collection attribute to retrieve the collections it is linked in. It's a sequence of collections which can contain 0 or more items, since an object can be part of 0 or more collections.

I'll assume your object is part of at least one collection since it's the general case.

obj = bpy.data.objects["Cube"]  # Replace with your object name

col = obj.users_collection[0]  # This stores a reference to the (first) collection
col_name = col.name

If your object is linked in several collections, you'll have to add custom logic since AFAIK the order in which they are stored in users_collection is not deterministic.

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