Play to Kodi
Play, queue and remote control your favourite online media on Kodi.
What is Play to Kodi?
Play to Kodi is a Chrome extension developed by khloke, and its main feature is "Play, queue and remote control your favourite online media on Kodi.".
Extension Screenshots
Download Play to Kodi Extension CRX File
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Extension Usage Instructions
A Google Chrome Extension for playing online content on Kodi. Supported sites include YouTube, Twitch.tv, AnimeLab and many more.
Requirements:
-Kodi Eden (v11) or later
-The relevant plugin installed on Kodi
-YouTube plugin must be version 4.4.4 or later
How to use:
- "Play now" button sends the currently playing video of your active tab to Kodi. If there are videos currently in a queue, it would be cleared and the current video would be played.
- "+Queue (X)" button puts the video of your current tab to the end of the playlist on Kodi. A number in parenthesis shows the number of items currently in the queue.
- "+Favourite" button keeps the video of your current tab in your favourite list for easy access.
- Drag and drop your favourites to rearrange them.
- With the extension window open, you can use some of your keyboard keys to remotely control Kodi. These keys are: Arrow keys, Backspace, Enter, "I" and "C".
- Right click on YouTube links to play or queue.
Permissions:
- Your data on all websites: Needed so that the extension could send JSON requests to any URL that you might put in the settings.
- Your tabs and browsing activity: Used only for getting the URL of the current tab so that we could use it to obtain the video id for sending to Kodi.
Setup:
- On Kodi, go under System > Settings > Services > Webserver
- Enable "Allow control of Kodi via HTTP, leave the port as default or set it to something else (if you know what you're doing). Write down the port number.
- Username and password are optional
- Right click on the 'Play to Kodi' icon and select 'Options'
- Put in the IP address or hostname of your Kodi box and fill in the port number with the port number you wrote down earlier. Fill in the username and password if you entered one into Kodi.
- Visit YouTube, watch some videos and click on the 'Play to Kodi' icon to play them on Kodi.
Alternatively, you could also visit the source code on
https://github.com/khloke/play-to-xbmc-chrome
to submit issue tickets.
Credits:
Icon was generously provided for free by IconDock.com :) Extension Basic Information
| Name |  Play to Kodi |
| ID | fncjhcjfnnooidlkijollckpakkebden |
| Official URL | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/play-to-kodi/fncjhcjfnnooidlkijollckpakkebden |
| Description | Play, queue and remote control your favourite online media on Kodi. |
| File Size | 281 KB |
| Installation Count | 36,515 |
| Current Version | 1.9.2 |
| Last Updated | 2019-04-30 |
| Publish Date | 2019-04-29 |
| Rating | 4.44/5 Total 528 Ratings |
| Developer | khloke |
| Payment Type | free |
| Extension Website | https://github.com/khloke/play-to-xbmc-chrome/wiki/Getting-Started |
| Help Page URL | https://github.com/khloke/play-to-xbmc-chrome/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions |
| Supported Languages | en |
| manifest.json | |
{
"update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx",
"manifest_version": 2,
"version": "1.9.2",
"name": "Play to Kodi",
"description": "Play, queue and remote control your favourite online media on Kodi.",
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "{ba707b6e-571d-47c9-a31d-7b94807d6ee2}"
}
},
"options_page": "options.html",
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"*:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/*",
"http:\/\/*\/*",
"contextMenus"
],
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "images\/icon.png",
"default_popup": "remote.html"
},
"icons": {
"16": "images\/icon-16.png",
"24": "images\/icon.png",
"128": "images\/tv.png"
},
"background": {
"scripts": [
"js\/jquery-2.1.4.min.js",
"js\/modules.js",
"js\/shared.js",
"js\/background_scripts\/background.js",
"js\/xbmc-helper.js"
]
},
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [
" | |
