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Install the Simple RSS Reader plug-in, open up its file, and change the FEED_URL variable, which is by default, to. Here’s a little hack you might find useful. The good news is that it’s easy to modify a plug-in.įor instance, I took the Got Internet? plug-in, changed its ping_address variable from 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) to, and changed the display text so that it shows “TidBITS 👍” when our Web site is reachable and “TidBITS 👎” when it’s not. Imagine that you find a plug-in that does kind of what you want, but not quite. Modifying BitBar Plug-ins to Get What You Want

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It also means that you can easily modify all the available plug-ins in any text editor, and you may be able to figure out how to make small changes just by following the script’s example, even if you don’t know the scripting language well. It could be a simple shell script, a Python script, a Ruby script, or even an AppleScript if you put the right hooks in. The beauty of BitBar is that any script that works in Terminal can be a BitBar plug-in. You can quickly get to your plug-in folder by Control-clicking BitBar and choosing Preferences > Open Plugin Folder. Likewise, you can drag any shell script you want into the plug-in folder and refresh to make it available.

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Removing one is as simple as moving it out of your plug-in folder, Control-clicking BitBar in the menu bar, and choosing Preferences > Refresh All (I disable plug-ins by putting them in an Archive folder in my plug-in folder).

Installing a plug-in is as easy as clicking the Add to BitBar button on a plug-in’s library page, which installs the plug-in into your specified plug-in folder.Īll BitBar plug-ins are simple text-based shell scripts. There are plug-ins for displaying weather, stock prices, cryptocurrency prices, email messages, Slack notifications, and pretty much anything you can think of, such as whether your cat is in or out. The BitBar Web site contains a rich library of community-created plug-ins. That works well, and I presume Dropbox or Google Drive would work similarly. I made a BitBar folder on my iCloud Drive so I can easily sync plug-ins between machines. When you first launch BitBar, it asks you to choose a directory to store plug-ins. I’ve tested and confirmed that it works in both macOS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina. It’s called BitBar, and it’s both free and open source. There are all sorts of apps that add various capabilities to your Mac’s menu bar, but I’ve stumbled across one that can add literally anything to the menu bar through a plug-in system.

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