Open Spotify link in client
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This is a small simple extension that tries to open any
open.spotify.com or play.spotify.com url in the Spotify desktop client
and then close the newly opened browser window.
The way the extension works is:
1. If the URL visited is open.spotify.com or play.spotify.com then
2. If the URL contains `/embed/` then don’t do anything
3. Remove the FQDN part and the first slash and
4. Replace those with spotify: and
5. Replace the remaining slashes (/) with colons (:)
6. Redirect to that URL
7. Close the tab that was opening the URL if it was a newly opened tab
Available in the [Google Chrome web store][store-url]
# Changes
## 1.3
* Don’t touch embedded links, so that websites that embed a playlist
can do so without having Spotify trying to open the link automatically.
Thanks [@shape55] for reporting the issue.
[@shape55]: https://github.com/shape55
## 1.2
* Opens links to user’s playlists properly. Thanks for the bug report Robin H.
[store-url]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-in-spotify-client/okkdbmdhpgmajopdpmflkldkemcldnjd
Great when it works, but sometimes it incorrectly thinks other links are Spotify links and just stops those pages from loading.
Once I disabled this app then links started opening in Spotify. At least on Chrome/MacOS in 2020.
Sorry, but it didn’t work. After installing, the browser won’t even open the ordinary link. So it just made things even worse than before… Uninstalling.
great app
does what it says it does, thanks!
It doesnt work for me, because i have to click “open in spotify” in the popup, but it disappears before i can do that.
I dont know if the extension author can change that, is there maybe a fix? (Typing spotify: in the adressbar and clicking on “Open Spotify” doesnt work for me, i will get asked that again when i want to open another link)
recently Chrome has a popup for the user to accept forwardings to another app on the computer. The extension closes the page before we can accept this for all future links.
Great extension but you have to do a little hack to get it work on MacOS.
If the extension appears to do nothing for you, type spotify: in the browser and hit Enter. Tick the box to allow Chrome to always open Spotify without asking. Finally, click Open Spotify to confirm.
Should work after you do that.
Didn’t work for me in Linux, need to click a confirmation box but can’t because the newtab disappears before hand.
Works, but doesn’t close the tab afterwards.
Still working in 2018 as of now
This was a good app, but is rendered obsolete with the Spotify client’s own hooks.
This was S**T it just takes you to the place that you added it
geez, thanks!
It does not work.
HOLY **** IT ACTUALLY WORKS
Works for me. Wish it could also bring the desktop client to the foreground after opening the link.
Not working… new tab disappears too fast
This addon works perfectly. Great job! 🙂
Doesn’t work
This is a great solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist, Spotify should behave like this by default if you aren’t logged into the web player.