Adds mpris integration for certain sites using a Firefox Webextension.
It allows you to have proper media key support for webplayers like youtube and spotify.
The extension currently works with the following sites
- Spotify (open.spotify.com)
- Youtube (youtube.com)
The following software is required to use this project.
- A fairly recent version of firefox (anything above version 64.0 should be fine)
- glib, dbus (install using your package manager)
- Something to interact with mpris players (like playerctl or gnome shell)
- Install the webextension
- Compiled version at addons.mozilla.org
- Or compile it yourself (see below)
- Install the native host
- Compiled version from here.
- Or compile it yourself (see below)
- Add a native manifest file
- Copy the mpris_integration_native.json file to
~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/and replace thepathkey with the location of the native host binary.
- Copy the mpris_integration_native.json file to
If you're running Arch Linux, steps 2 and 3 can be replaced by installing the AUR package media-integration-native-host (not yet released).
In addition to the prerequisites above you will also need
- A copy of the source (clone this repo)
- web-ext
- rust and cargo (install using package manager or rustup)
- tsc (typescript compiler)
- In the add-on/ directory
- Run
tsc --buildto build the source typescript files into javascript, which is placed in theadd-on/distfolder. - Run the
web-ext buildcommand. The build extension will be placed as a .zip inadd-on/web-ext-artifacts. To install it, look here.
- Run
- Run
cargo build(optionally with the--releaseflag to make an optimized build). The binary will be placed intarget/{debug,release}.
Don't forget to also add a native manifest file as described in the installation section.
This webextension and native host is licensed under the MIT license.
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