Download the wallpaper offered by National Geographic photography website and set it current wallpaper background.
Another bash script for the same purpose can be found here
You just need to add a startup application:
gnome-session-properties
then add a startup program with:
Name: pyngwallpaper
Command: /path/to/pyngwallpaper/src/main.py
Comment: download and update wallpaper!
You can also append arguments in Command box.
Download NgWallpaper-win32_1.0.0 here and unarchive it. A shortcut will be created in your startup folder if installed successfully.
You can also create a shortcut by yourself, or add arguments to it.
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Read and parse National Geographic photography Photo of Today website
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If there is a wallpaper download link:
- if both its URL and target file name are same as last downloaded photo's, exit without error
- download it to specified folder
- record the downloading URL, location of saved photo and downloading time in a text file, which locates in current user's personal folder
- use it as wallpaper unless in download-only mode
- exit
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If there isn't a wallpaper link, which means the photo may have resolution improper to be wallpaper:
- if the force switch is on, do same as step 2
- reduce persistence counter by 1; if it's 0, exit
- go to the previous Photo of The Day, then do things again
usage: pyngwallpaper [-h] [-v] [-d] [-f] [--redownload] [-k]
[--persistence PERSISTENCE] [-s {no,gnome3,gnome2}]
[--setter-args SETTER_ARGS] [-t OUTPUT_FOLDER]
[URL [URL ...]]
Download the wallpaper offered by National Geographicphotography website and
set it current wallpaper background.
positional arguments:
URL starts with this URL instead of today's photo if
specified
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show version information
-d, --debug enable debug outputs. The more --debug the more
detailed the log will be
-f, --force adopt this photo even if its size may be strange to be
wallpaper. Disabled by default
--redownload do not consider history records. Download must be
done. But this download will be recorded in history
file.
-k, --keep-file-name keep the original filename. By default downloaded file
will be renamed as 'wallpaper.jpg'. Keep file name
will retain all downloaded photos
--persistence PERSISTENCE
go back for at most N-1 pages if photo of today isn't
for wallpaper. Backward browsing will be interrupted
before N-1 pages tried if either a downloaded page
found or a wallpaper link read
-s {no,gnome3,gnome2,win}, --setter {no,gnome3,gnome2,win}
specify interface to be called for setting wallpaper.
'no' indicates downloading-only; 'gnome2/3' are only
for Linux with gnome; 'win' is for Windows only.
Customized setter can be added as dev doc described.
Default: gnome3
--setter-args SETTER_ARGS
go back for at most N-1 pages if photo of today isn't
for
-t OUTPUT_FOLDER, --output-folder OUTPUT_FOLDER
specify the folder to store photos. Use
'~/MyNgWallpapers' folder in Linux or 'My
Documents/MyNgWallpapers' in Windows by default
(TBD)