Random Tumblr photo on my desktop background (Gnome)
I heavily use tumblr lately so I though of creating a script that will update my desktop’s background image on Gnome every some seconds with a random image from some tumblr blogs I like.
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$config = array(
'api_key' => 'get your api key from http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps',
'sleep' => 45,
'debug' => true,
'blogs' => array(
'whiteshoe',
'devopsreactions',
'afr0diti',
//...
)
);
if(empty($config['api_key']))
throw new Exception('Api key is empty');
if(empty($config['blogs']))
throw new Exception('Blogs can not be empty array');
$r=0;
while(true) {
$blog_url = url($config['blogs'], $config['api_key']);
$response = json_decode(get($blog_url));
$posts = ($response->meta->status == 200) ? $response->response->posts : array();
if(isset($config['debug']) && $config['debug']) {
echo "[debug] request {$r}, {$response->meta->status} @ {$blog_url}\n";
}
if(!empty($posts)) {
mt_srand(time());
$rand = mt_rand(0, count($posts)-1);
$post = $posts[$rand];
printDetails($post);
$photo = array_shift($post->photos);
$url = $photo->original_size->url;
setBackground($url);
sleep(isset($config['sleep']) ? $config['sleep'] : 60);
}
}
function setBackground($url)
{
$filename = __DIR__.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'tumblr_backgroud_image';
file_put_contents($filename, file_get_contents($url));
exec('gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///'.$filename);
}
function url($blog, $key)
{
if(is_array($blog)) {
$x = array_rand($blog);
$blog = $blog[$x];
}
return "http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/{$blog}.tumblr.com/posts/photo?api_key={$key}";
}
function get($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '30');
$content = trim(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}
function printDetails($post)
{
foreach(array('blog_name','id','post_url','caption') as $info)
{
echo $post->{$info};
echo "\n";
}
echo "\n";
}
Code is on gist:4984301, comments and improvements are welcome. Mac OS version to come soon...
Written by Dimitrios Meggidis
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