ewnd9 / xavier

CLI remote control for pages in Google Chrome and music playback in Android

Xavier

CLI remote control for pages in Google Chrome and music playback in Android

Usage

Chrome extension

$ xavier chrome/tabs
$ xavier chrome/active-tab
$ xavier chrome/activate-tab <url>
$ xavier chrome/move-right
$ xavier chrome/move-left

$ xavier play.google.com/play-or-pause
$ xavier play.google.com/prev
$ xavier play.google.com/next

$ xavier vk.com/play-or-pause
$ xavier vk.com/prev
$ xavier vk.com/next

$ xavier youtube.com/play-or-pause

Android app

$ xavier --setup-gcm # then restart server
$ xavier android/next-track
$ xavier android/previous-track
$ xavier android/play-pause
$ xavier android/now-playing --notify

Why not webdriver?

According to https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/317/attach-to-browser-not-spawned-by-selenium2 it is not that easy.

Install

The xavier package was manually unpublished from npm on 2025-08-28. The name has been released for potential future use.

Usage

$ forever xavier-server

Development

$ npm run build:watch

icon source

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/button-ui-system-apps-icons-by-blackvariant/X11-icon.html

License