Prayer Times — Waybar Widget

Shows Islamic prayer times in your status bar — auto-detects location via IP.

What it does

• Displays how much time is left in the current prayer (e.g. "Isha 20m remaining")
• Shows "Forbidden 12m" during sunrise and midday periods when prayer isn't allowed
• Shows time until the next prayer when nothing is active (e.g. "Dhuhr in 1h")

How to use

• Left-click the prayer time to switch between two display modes:
  • Context-aware (shows what matters right now)
  • Always show time until next prayer
• Hover over it to see the complete daily timetable

Installation

From PyPI (recommended)

uv tool install waybar-salah

Or with pip:

pip install waybar-salah

From source

Requires uv.

uv tool install git+https://github.com/shahriyardx/waybar-salah

Or from a local copy:

cd /path/to/prayer-times
uv tool install .

Then add to your Waybar config:

"custom/prayer": {
    "exec": "waybar-salah",
    "return-type": "json",
    "interval": 30,
    "on-click": "waybar-salah --toggle",
    "tooltip": true
}

Add some CSS to colour the states:

#custom-prayer.current { color: #a6e3a1; }
#custom-prayer.forbidden { color: #f38ba8; }
#custom-prayer.next { color: #89b4fa; }

Customisation

Open src/waybar_salah/main.py and change CITY, COUNTRY, or METHOD at the top.

Files

src/waybar_salah/main.py     # main logic
pyproject.toml               # package config
cache.json                   # daily timings (auto-generated)