#NASA APOD Wallpaper ######For Ubuntu systems
This script will set your wallpaper to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day available at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/. If a non-image item is the current APOD, the script will choose any image from the archives.
To use:
- Clone this repository.
- In nasa_apod_wallpaper.py, edit "user" variable in line 9 to your own username.
- Run nasa_apod_wallpaper.py!
Note: The script sleeps for 15 seconds to allow complete download of the APOD.
To have this script run daily, run the following commands in terminal:
crontab -e
This will open a file to be edited in terminal. Enter the following statement in it
* */12 * * * /path/to/python nasa_apod_wallpaper.py
where 'path/to/' represents the path to nasa_apod_wallpaper.py script.
Press ctrl+x to exit file editing mode and press Y to save changes.
This will run the script in your system in every 12 hours!
PS: Happy birthday to my friend Arpit Gogia who was the inspiration behind this!
##BONUS
A similar script to NASA-APOD, wallpaperscraft.py gets wallpapers from https://wallpaperscraft.com
Modify categories list in line 12 of script to alter categories to fetch wallpaper from.
Check out categories at https://wallpaperscraft.com
Now you can specify category while executing script as a command line argument. For example, the following command will get a wallpaper from space category.
python wallpaperscraft.py space
The argument passed must exist in the categories list defined in line-12 of the script.