Auto change wallpaper on linux from reddit
this script will get a new image from reddit every period and write it to an ixisting image on you Hard drive, if you set this image as your wallpaper you will have a constantly changing desktop wallpaper from the amazing subreddit called EarthPorn, they post grazy beautiful images of our mother earth.
i tried this script on a linux Centos 6 machine with GNOME/GTK2 Interface
Gist : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-5-12
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Author : Emad Elsaid (https://github.com/blazeeboy)
#
# autochanging wallpaper from reddit images
# you have to point the script to your existing
# file you set it as a wallpaper and it will override
# it with a new image every 5 minutes.
#
# this script works on centos 6 with GNOME/GTK2 interface
require 'open-uri' # we'll need to download image with that
require 'ruby_reddit_api' # gem install ruby_reddit_api
# class will be initialized with
# a subreddit to monitor and a
# destination file to write the
# downloaded image to it
class RedditWallpaper
def initialize( subreddit, destination_file = 'bg.jpg' )
@subreddit = subreddit
@path = destination_file
@downloaded = []
@not_downloaded = []
end
# download the url to destination
def download( url )
image = open( "#{url}.jpg" ).read
File.write @path, image
end
# update wallpaper and update images cache
def update
# make me a reddit client please
r = Reddit::Api.new
# update earth
posts = r.browse @subreddit
posts.each do |r|
@not_downloaded << r.url if r.url.include?('imgur') and !@downloaded.include?(r.url)
end
image = @not_downloaded.shift
download image
end
end
# i'll get images from earthporn
# they have lots of great images of
# nature places
# and then i'll update it every 5 minutes
downloader = RedditWallpaper.new 'earthPorn', '/home/eelsaid/Pictures/bg.jpg'
loop do
downloader.update
sleep 5*60 # wait for 5 minutes
end
Written by Emad Elsaid
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