BitBar (by Mat Ryer - @matryer) lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar.

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Example showing the latest Buy and Sell figures for BitCoins:

Click to see the full output, and more options:

Example showing your internal and external IP addresses:

Get the latest version of BitBar. Copy it to your Applications folder and run it - it will ask you to (create and) elect a plugins folder, do so.

Homebrew Cask users can, alternatively, install BitBar by running brew cask install bitbar.

Browse our plugins to find useful scripts, or write your own

If you love this, any BitCoin donations are most welcome, to 1DGoNEYAnjE5DqK7y5zMPR4PLU5HLKpLNR or send something useful (Amazon Wishlist).

Just download the plugin of your choice into your BitBar plugins directory and choose 'Reset' from one of the BitBar menus.

The refresh time is in the filename of the plugin, following this format:

{name}.{time}.{ext}

• name - The name of the file
• time - The refresh rate (see below)
• ext - The file extension

For example:

• date.1m.sh would refresh every minute.

Most plugins will come with a default, but you can change it to anything you like:

• 10s - ten seconds
• 1m - one minute
• 2h - two hours
• 1d - a day

Ensure the plugin is executable by running chmod +x plugin.sh.

Because Git will ignore everything in Plugins/Enabled, you can use it to maintain your own plugins directory while still benefitting from tracking (upstream) changes.

cd Plugins/Enabled

# Enable spotify plugin
ln -s ../Music/spotify.10s.sh

# Enable uptime plugin and change update interval to 30 seconds
ln -s ../System/uptime.1m.sh uptime.30s.sh

Then select the Enabled folder in your BitBar preferences.

In case you made the mistake of choosing a directory with thousands of files as the plugin directory and BitBar getting stuck forever, do this from terminal to reset it:

defaults delete com.matryer.BitBar

• Special thanks to @muhqu and @tylerb for all their help (see commit history for details)
• Thanks to Chris Ryer for the app logo - and to @mazondo for the original
• Thanks for all our plugin contributors who have come up with some pretty genius things