Firefox now supports mrpis natively, so this extension is no longer needed, and is not in active development
For more info see: https://github.com/jsmnbom/mpris-integration/issues/9

Mpris integration

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.

Sites

The extension currently works with the following sites

• Spotify (open.spotify.com)
• Youtube (youtube.com)

Getting started

Prerequisites

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)

Installing

1. Install the webextension
   • Compiled version at addons.mozilla.org
   • Or compile it yourself (see below)
2. Install the native host
   • Compiled version from here.
   • Or compile it yourself (see below)
3. Add a native manifest file
   • Copy the mpris_integration_native.json file to ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ and replace the path key with the location of the native host binary.

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).

Compiling yourself

Compile prerequisites

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)

The extension

1. In the add-on/ directory
   • Run tsc --build to build the source typescript files into javascript, which is placed in the add-on/dist folder.
   • Run the web-ext build command. The build extension will be placed as a .zip in add-on/web-ext-artifacts. To install it, look here.
2. Run cargo build (optionally with the --release flag to make an optimized build). The binary will be placed in target/{debug,release}.

Don't forget to also add a native manifest file as described in the installation section.

License

This webextension and native host is licensed under the MIT license.

Acknowledgements

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