gpmdp
gpmdp is a command-line utility to access the API of Google Play Music Desktop Player. It's meant to be used in macros and AppleScripts, like this one I use for pausing my music when I lock my computer:
tell application "Google Play Music Desktop Player"
if it is running then
do shell script "GPMDP_AUTH_KEY=my-auth-key gpmdp pause"
end if
end tell
Installing a premade binary
Download the relevant pre-compiled binary for your system and copy it to a directory in your $PATH
.
Installing from source
You can install gpmdp
using go get
or by cloning it yourself. Via go get
:
$ go get github.com/jimmysawczuk/gpmdp
Or, if you prefer to clone it yourself:
$ git clone https://github.com/jimmysawczuk/gpmdp.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/jimmysawczuk/gpmdp
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/jimmysawczuk/gpmdp
$ go install
You may need to add this directory to your $PATH
, or copy the binary into a standard location.
Usage
Start up Google Play Music Desktop Player, and run:
$ gpmdp auth
Enter the PIN as prompted, then copy the provided authentication key. It's used as an environment variable by gpmdp, so you can either store this in your .bashrc
/.zshrc
or prefix any commands you want to run with it, i.e. GPMDP_AUTH_KEY=my-auth-key gpmdp pause
.
Finally, you can run gpmdp play
, gpmdp pause
, gpmdp toggleshuffle
or gpmdp status
, all of which should be self explanatory. Running gpmdp help
shows a usage screen.