Add spotify now playing script to polybar

polybar/config.ini

@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ font-2 = unicode:fontformat=truetype:size=8:antialias=false;0
 font-3 = SymbolsNerdFont:size=15;3
 
 
-modules-left = my-text-label xworkspaces 
+modules-left = my-text-label xworkspaces nowplaying 
-modules-right = filesystem  memory cpu battery temperature pulseaudio bluetooth wlan date
+modules-center = 
-; modules-right = xwindow filesystem pulseaudio xkeyboard memory cpu wlan eth date
+modules-right = filesystem memory cpu battery temperature backlight pulseaudio bluetooth wlan date
 
 tray-position = right
 tray-padding = 2
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ label-volume = %percentage%%
 label-muted = "muted"
 click-right = exec pavucontrol
 label-muted-foreground = ${colors.disabled}
-label-padding = 1
 format-volume-underline = #3c4812
 format-muted-underline = ${colors.alert}
+label-volume-padding = 1
+
 [module/xkeyboard]
 type = internal/xkeyboard
 blacklist-0 = num lock
@@ -254,8 +255,30 @@ click-left = exec ~/.config/polybar/polybar_scripts/toggle_bluetooth.sh
 format-padding = 1
 format-foreground = ${colors.primary}
 format-underline = ${colors.primary}
+label-padding = 1
 
+[module/backlight]
+type = internal/xbacklight
+enable-scroll = true
+format = <label>
+label = %percentage%%
+format-prefix = " "
+format-prefix-foreground = ${colors.primary}
+format-underline = ${colors.primary}
+label-padding = 1
+
+[module/nowplaying]
+type = custom/script
+exec = ~/dotfiles/polybar/polybar_scripts/now_playing.sh
+interval = 3
+click-left = playerctl play-pause &
+format-prefix = ""
+format-prefix-foreground = ${colors.primary}
+label-padding = 1
+format-underline = ${colors.primary}
 
 [settings]
 screenchange-reload = true
 pseudo-transparency = true
+
+

polybar/polybar_scripts/now_playing.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+player_status=$(playerctl status 2> /dev/null)
+
+if [ "$player_status" = "Playing" ]; then
+    echo " $(playerctl metadata artist) | $(playerctl metadata title) | $(playerctl metadata album)"
+elif [ "$player_status" = "Paused" ]; then
+    echo " $(playerctl metadata artist) | $(playerctl metadata title) | $(playerctl metadata album)"
+else
+    echo "$(playerctl status)"
+fi