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Spotify Friend Activity

Google Chrome Extension to view your friends' activity in Spotify's web player.

Or build it yourself (latest dev build)

1. Global Setup

  1. Open a command-line interface. (e.g., Terminal, Command Prompt, Git Bash, etc.)

  2. Ensure that you are using the latest LTS version of Node.

2. Project Setup

  1. Run git clone https://github.com/sakgoyal/spotify-friend-activity.git
  2. Run cd spotify-friend-activity
  3. Run npm install
  4. Build the extension:
    • Run npm run build:linux (Linux only)
    • Run npm run build:win (Windows only)

3. Chrome Setup

  1. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/

  2. If you already installed Spotify Friend Activity from the Chrome Web Store, you must temporarily disable it by clicking on the toggle at the bottom right of the Spotify Friend Activity card in chrome://extensions/

  3. Enable Developer Mode. (Top right toggle)

  4. Click on Load unpacked. (Top left button)

  5. Select the dist folder that npm run build generated.

  6. Navigate to https://open.spotify.com/ to verify that the extension is working.

  7. To test any changes you've made to your code: re-run npm run build, wait for it to finish building, then click the refresh icon at the bottom of the Spotify Friend Activity card in chrome://extensions/

Credits

Made with preact-chrome-extension-starter and spotify-buddylist.