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Play to Kodi

by khloke

v2.0.0 Updated Oct 13, 2025 555KiB
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★ 4.44
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Description

A Google Chrome Extension for playing online content on Kodi. Supported sites include YouTube, Twitch.tv, and many more. Requirements: -Kodi Eden (v11) or later -The relevant plugin installed on Kodi -YouTube plugin must be version 4.4.4 or later How to use: - "Play now" button sends the currently playing video of your active tab to Kodi. If there are videos currently in a queue, it would be cleared and the current video would be played. - "+Queue (X)" button puts the video of your current tab to the end of the playlist on Kodi. A number in parenthesis shows the number of items currently in the queue. - "+Favourite" button keeps the video of your current tab in your favourite list for easy access. - Drag and drop your favourites to rearrange them. - With the extension window open, you can use some of your keyboard keys to remotely control Kodi. These keys are: Arrow keys, Backspace, Enter, "I" and "C". - Right click on YouTube links to play or queue. Permissions: - Your data on all websites: Needed so that the extension could send JSON requests to any URL that you might put in the settings. - Your tabs and browsing activity: Used only for getting the URL of the current tab so that we could use it to obtain the video id for sending to Kodi. Setup: - On Kodi, go under System > Settings > Services > Webserver - Enable "Allow control of Kodi via HTTP, leave the port as default or set it to something else (if you know what you're doing). Write down the port number. - Username and password are optional - Right click on the 'Play to Kodi' icon and select 'Options' - Put in the IP address or hostname of your Kodi box and fill in the port number with the port number you wrote down earlier. Fill in the username and password if you entered one into Kodi. - Visit YouTube, watch some videos and click on the 'Play to Kodi' icon to play them on Kodi. Alternatively, you could also visit the source code on https://github.com/khloke/play-to-xbmc-chrome to submit issue tickets. Credits: Icon was generously provided for free by IconDock.com :)
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Reviews (24 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-13
KonZe187

Stopped working with update 2.0.0.

★☆☆☆☆2019-10-19
Ertürk Yılmaz

Great, but please add Elementum for magnet links.

★☆☆☆☆2018-06-16
Shane Stenton

Even on a hard wired gigabit network, it plays extremely laggy slow, and then boots the stream after a few seconds anyway.

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-07
Alie

worst thing ever

★☆☆☆☆2016-10-10
aycaz gaming

this sucked

★☆☆☆☆2016-09-05
Gerald Quinn

cannot add this to home computer. windows 10

★☆☆☆☆2016-08-21
Robert Smith

junk won't work on chrome

★☆☆☆☆2014-08-26
SRM

Doesn't work.. Another dud..

★☆☆☆☆2013-02-15
Archimedes Trajano

Seems to have stopped working again. XBMC says can't find video URL.

★☆☆☆☆2012-12-28
Morgan Escue

it wont work for me?

★★☆☆☆2018-10-20
dr blais

doesn't link up anymore its a pain to have to set it up all the time

★★☆☆☆2016-02-15
s f

Way too limited to be useful. If not implementing at least the same features available from the default web remote that comes with kodi, why even bother? Good potential, not there yet

★★★☆☆2019-08-03
Cato Søgnen

Hope to see support for elementum.

★★★☆☆2019-06-12
Ante Rajič

please add Elementum addon for torrent/magnet links

★★★☆☆2018-11-25
Lynn Trisinscius

I want to love this. It casts fine, but only casts in a low resolution. I don't see the point in sending a 480p (possibly worse) image to a 4K TV. There doesn't seem to be any way to change the resolution either unfortunately.

★★★☆☆2017-04-29
Ondřej Janál

The new version has stopped working :(

★★★☆☆2016-10-25
shayan ali bhatti

The app is great for videos that directly give URL of video. But these days every video starts with blob:http:... In that case Raspberry PI doesnt recognise it as a video. Please give a solution for that too. How to deal with this blob ?

★★★☆☆2016-10-16
kenzo saheed

wonderful

★★★☆☆2016-04-30
eoghan

I love this extension and it used to work with quasar but now it sends the torrent but it doesnt play. Also dailymotion wont work with it either

★★★☆☆2014-06-21
Jan Magne Skaue

Playback "to" Gotham 13.1 works well - but all remote and keyboard control on the XBMC host is "deactivated" during playback, can't even pause or stop playback by other means than the browser plugin!

★★★☆☆2014-02-03
Emmanuel BOUAZIZ

It look nice, but the Play-to XBMC menu anly appears on YouTube links for me :/ (Chrome 31)

★★★☆☆2013-06-27
Jakub Werchowski

good extension, if only you could edit the playlist would be fantastic. But one problem when you try to play something from Vevo, xbmc crashes

★★★☆☆2013-06-26
Marco Bogliolo

Good extension, I just find annoying that XBMC doesn't pop-up but I need to click on its tab.

★★★☆☆2013-05-26
Tinko Georgiev

default xbmc login creds have no password - plugin doesn't save creds if password field empty, hence cannot connect

Permissions (3)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 2.0.0
Updated Oct 13, 2025
Size 555KiB
First Seen Mar 25, 2026