Automatically downloads and changes desktop wallpaper to Bing Photo of the Day.
Python Script for automatically downloading and changing the desktop wallpaper to Bing Photo of the day. The script runs automatically at the startup and works on GNU/Linux with Gnome. Works perfectly on Ubuntu 16.10.
It grabs images exactly the same way Microsoft uses to put it up on its page - using XML/RSS/JSON. You can't scrape the website directly. After searching on the internet for long I found out the link - http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=xml&idx=0&n=1&mkt=en-US
Here we can get data in any of the formats but substituting the value of format=[value] in the link.
idx denotes the day before the current day. idx=0 means current day, idx=1 means yesterday and so on. n is an integer denoting the number of days before the day denoted by idx. It grabs data about all the n number of images. mkt denotes the area. The script will try to match your locale to one of the supported Bing Market areas, falling back to 'en-US' if it fails to do so. You can also force a particular market area (see list of valid markets in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251064.aspx) in the config file:
~/.config/bing-desktop-wallpaper-changer/config.ini
Example:
[market]
# If you want to override the current Bing market dectection,
# set your preferred market here. For a list of markets, see
# https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251064.aspx
area = 'bg-BG'To force your area to be 'bg-BG' (Bulgarian - Bulgaria).
All the wallpapers are stored in '/home/[user]/Pictures/BingWallpapers/'
Fully automated Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer installation and configuration! No need to add the script to your Startup list or edit main.py or copy paste it or etc.. The Installer does everything for you!
Starting with Installer version 2.0, the Installer works like a normal linux binary commands (for example, ls, cd, etc..)
Note that the Installer can request root permissions(sudo) for doing some tasks
When you first run the Installer, you need to prepare:
1 Clone/download project
2 Move into the downloaded project's directory
3 Open a terminal and enter:
chmod +x installer.sh
./installer.sh --help
4 Help screen will pop up on your Terminal - You can see the Installer's all Usages and Arguments
INFO: Complete Prepare & Help before you use the Installer!
To install, use:
./installer.sh --install
and to uninstall, use:
./installer.sh --uninstall
Other usages is listed below:
Usage: installer.sh [OPTION]...
installer.sh [OPTION=*]...
--help displays help about installer and tasks
--version displays the installer version
--license displays LICENSE
--readme displays README.md
--detect-previous-install detects previous Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer installation
--install installs Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer
--uninstall uninstalls Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer
--update updates Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer (needs git)
--execute runs Bing-Desktop-Wallpaper-Changer
For developers:
--enable-dev-mode enables Developer Mode
--disable-dev-mode disables Developer Mode
--run-function-or-command=* runs internal functions or shell commands
Note that Developer Mode is disabled automatically when Installer restarts (because of security reasons),
those who wish to run developer tasks will always have to put --enable-dev-mode in front of OPTION.
For example, installer.sh --enable-dev-mode [DEVELOPER_OPTION/TASKS]
To directly run internal functions or shell commands, first you need to enable Dev Mode and use --run-function-or-command.
For example, installer.sh --enable-dev-mode --run-function-or-command=[YOUR COMMAND]
For more information, please visit:
GitHub: <https://github.com/UtkarshGpta/bing-desktop-wallpaper-changer>
And you know what? #This_Installer_can_moo!
- When installing, Ask user about : Schedule with crontab, Limit the size of all downloaded wallpapers, Start with timer
Any other suggestions welcome!
Utkarsh Gupta and Contributors