# Now Playing

> Simple extension to automatically fetch the currently playing song from a YouTube or Spotify tab, and put it in a text file for stream widgets.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/now-playing](https://chrome-stats.com/d/now-playing)

## Overview

- **ID:** `now-playing`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Suyooo
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,social-communication,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 37
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-09
- **First published:** 2025-05-03
- **Size:** 18 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/now-playing/)

## Description

Grab the current title of video or music playing in your Firefox and put it in a text file on your PC.
Made primarily for streaming, so you can have a "Now Playing" overlay if you use your browser to play music.

<strong>Important:</strong> For this extension to work, you need to download a desktop application. Head to <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/31ba7798b65fa59b2dcea362c752e3e9185b68639ddc1d814fb70b691dd64d7d/https%3A//github.com/Suyooo/firefox-nowplaying%23firefox-nowplaying" rel="nofollow">github.com/Suyooo/firefox-nowplaying</a> for details and instructions!

<strong>What the permissions are needed for:</strong>
- <em>Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox</em>: Allows the extension to send the media information to the desktop application, which handles configuration and writing the files to your disk.
- <em>Display notifications to you</em>: To let you know about the extension's status and errors.

## Rankings

- #18,714 — Overall
- #64 — play
- #152 — widget

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `notifications`
- `scripting`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Facilitates communication between extensions and native applications, usually low risk if managed correctly.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/now-playing)