arturesteves / bing-daily-wallpaper

bing-daily-wallpaper

This tool downloads the bing daily wallpaper by region and updates the desktop wallpaper. This is a command line tool written in node.js

Install

Necessary to install a version of nodejs.
Download or clone this repository.
Install dependencies by opening the command line of the project root directory and apply the command:
npm install

Config file example

Json configuration file, change the region if you want images from a different region and change the save_directory property, to hold the desired location to save the images.
Properties:
base_url Specifies the website to download the wallpapers. Only working for bing
region Specifies the region from which the images must be downloaded. This property is related to bing
format Specifies the format of the webrequests Only supporting json format
save_directory Specifies the directory where the images will be saved

Example:

  "base_url": "https://www.bing.com",
  "region": "en-US",
  "format": "json",
  "save_directory": "C:\\Users\\Wallpapers"

Usage

Simple execution

Open the command line move to the project root directory and type:
>node lib/bing-daily-wallpaper.js

Execute from any location with a bat file (windows)

Create a bat file on any location then add to the PATH environment variable the directory where this bat file is located.
Example of a bat file, wallpaper.bat:

@echo off
SET dir=%cd%
SET filedir=C:\Users\...\bing-daily-wallpaper\lib
cd %filedir%
node bing-daily-wallpaper.js
cd %dir%

Execute it every day

Use task scheduler to execute the bat file when the machine starts.

License

Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for more information.