This is a program that will updated the wallpaper to match the top hit on some subreddit.
This program requires that the Python Imageing Library (PIL) is installed.
This program requires that python-argparse is installed or the default python version is 2.7+
This program requires python-setuptools to install an executable to your path so you do not need to write one yourself although you can just use distutils
you need to make sure that the download location exists before running. (By default ~/.background_getter)
To run
0) clone this repository
1) install by running python setup.py install
2) call: reddit-wallpaper [options] [subreddit1 [subreddit2 ...]]
This program has only been tested on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.3 and Ubuntu Linux 12.04 beta and it should work on all systems which use either gconf or gsettings to store the background file name.
usage: reddit-wallpaper [-h] [-o NAME] [--no-overwrite | --overwrite]
[--endings ENDINGS [ENDINGS ...]] [--min MIN_X MIN_Y]
[--max MAX_X MAX_Y] [-N | -n] [-t number] [--hot]
[--new] [--controversial] [--top]
[--respect-flickr-download-flag | --ignore-flickr-download-flag]
[--debug] [--quiet] [--syslog]
[subreddit [subreddit ...]]
this will retrieve a background from some subreddit and set its top image link
as the background
positional arguments:
subreddit the subreddits to check for images
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o NAME, --output NAME, --save-file NAME
the file by which you want the downloaded file to be
saved under. note all occurances of '@' are replaced
by the reddit post id number of the reddit submission,
this will be unique to each file. if you do not use @
at all in the name be sure that this is set to
overwrite already saved files
--no-overwrite do not overwrite any preexisting image files if the
name is the same, this is enabled by default
--overwrite redownload and overwrite any files bearing the same
name as the one being downloaded, this is disabled by
default
--endings ENDINGS [ENDINGS ...]
the file types to accept for download
-N, --allow-nsfw allow nsfw content to be downloaded
-n, --no-nsfw do not download any content marked nsfw
-t number, --tries number
this specifies the number of posts to check before
giving up on finding a good match. if the value is
'none', or this flag is not used, it will test all the
posts it is given for a suitable image
--respect-flickr-download-flag
respect the wishes of the poster of images hosted on
Flickr, only downloading them if the poster has
enabled it, This is activated by default.
--ignore-flickr-download-flag
Ignore the no download flag on images stored on flikr,
downloading them even if the poster has disabled
downloads.
Size limits:
set the size limit for the images to be downloaded. Each value must be
either a positive non-zero number or none if there is no limit for that
variable
--min MIN_X MIN_Y this specifices the minimum size of the image. Each
argument must be either a positive non-zero number or
the word 'none'
--max MAX_X MAX_Y this specifices the maximum size of the image. Each
argument must be either a positive non-zero number or
the word 'none'
Sort Type:
Select the section of the subreddit to use for sorting. NB if more than
one of these switches are present the result is undefined.
--hot The default. Use the 'What's Hot' section of the
subreddit
--new Use the 'New' section of the subreddit
--controversial Use the 'Controversial' section of the subreddit
--top Use the 'Top' section of the subreddit
Debug info:
these control how much information is printed onto the screen and into the
logs. NB if more than one of these switches is present the result is
undefined
--debug print out debug information
--quiet do not print out status info
--syslog print to the screen and store in syslog