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Pocketcasts/BeardedSpice fix 💚

So I like to listen to podcasts while at work. Nope, I don't find it distracting if it's specific podcasts. I like the background noise.

BeardedSpice is awesome for wiring up your Mac play/pause controls to things other than iTunes. Like the Pocketcasts web app. Unfortunately it broke recently, but here's the steps to fix.

Extra bonus: it now works in the Pocketcasts Beta 🎉

1. Allow BeardedSpice to run JS in Chrome
2. Restart BeardedSpice
3. Grab the pocketcasts-plus.bsstrategy file in this gist
4. Open BeardedSpice preferences and import it
5. Enjoy your podcasts 🎧

Note: The file in the gist is adapted from this PR - thanks! I hope they merge it at some point.

pocketcasts-plus.bsstrategy

BSStrategy = {
  version: 4,
  displayName: "PocketCasts+",
  accepts: {
    method: "predicateOnTab",
    format: "%K LIKE[c] '*play*.pocketcasts.com*'",
    args: ["URL"]
  },
  toggle: function () {
    document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]').click()
  },
  next: function () {
    document.querySelector('.skip_forward_button').click()
  },
  previous: function () {
    document.querySelector('.skip_back_button').click()
  },
  pause: function () {
    if (document.querySelector('.play_pause_button') && document.querySelector('.play_pause_button').classList.contains('pause_button')) {
        document.querySelector('.play_pause_button').click()
    } else if (document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]') && document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]').ariaPressed === 'true') {
      document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]').click()
    }
  },
  isPlaying: function () {
    if (document.querySelector('.play_pause_button')) {
      return document.querySelector('.play_pause_button').classList.contains('pause_button')
    } else if (document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]')) {
      return document.querySelector('.controls [aria-label="Play"]').ariaPressed === 'true'
    }
  },
  trackInfo: function () {
    return {
      'track': document.querySelector(
        'div.player_top div.player_episode'
      ) ? document.querySelector(
        'div.player_top div.player_episode'
      ).innerText : document.querySelector('.controls .episode-title').innerText,

      'album': document.querySelector(
        'div.player_podcast_title div.player_episode'
      ) ? document.querySelector(
        'div.player_podcast_title div.player_episode'
      ).innerText : document.querySelector('.controls .podcast-title').innerText,

      'image': document.querySelector(
        'div.player_top div.player_artwork img'
      ) ? document.querySelector(
        'div.player_top div.player_artwork img'
      ).src : document.querySelector('.controls .podcast-image img').src,
    };
  }
}