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daily-pic

Get and set the image of the day from different sites:

Astronomy

• nasa.apod
• nasa.apod.rand
• nasa.iod
• nasa.jpl
• skymap.astrobot
• skymap.heavensabove
• skymap.astronetru

Comics

• dilbert
• calvinandhobbes
• eatthattoast
• xkcd

Misc

• 4walled
• interfacelift
• wallhaven
• imgur.albums
• imgur.subreddit
• reddit
• deviantart
• simpledesktops

Nature

• bing
• chromecast
• natgeo
• nasa earth observatory iotd

Weather

• latlong.nasa.msfc
• america.smn
• america.nasa.goes
• america.fvalk
• america.s.aw
• america.n.aw
• globe.dienet.mercator
• globe.dienet.peters
• globe.dienet.mollweide
• globe.dienet.rectangular
• arg.smn
• arg.nexsat

Feel free to add your own source :)

Usage

Pass the correspondent flag as argument to the script. For example, to get and set the wallpaper from nasa apod use the -a flag:

$ bash do.sh -a nasa.jpl
# NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Category: universe

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:32:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) PHP/5.5.9 JRun/4.0
Last-Modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:46:19 GMT
ETag: "4647c4f-cd8d-4a66225dba4c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 52621
Content-Type: image/jpeg
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

URL:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/wallpaper/PIA13066-800x600.jpg
FILE: /home/sendai/projects/daily-pic/pics/PIA13066-800x600.jpg

Installation steps

Go to where you want to save this script:

$ cd /home/usernamehere/projects

Clone this repo (or just download the zip file):

$ git clone 'https://github.com/azimut/daily-pic'

Add the following crontab as root or using sudo (if you are using vixie-cron or if you know how to configure cron you might try to add this as user instead of root):

# crontab -e
0 */1 * * * su - usernamehere -c 'cd /home/usernamehere/projects/daily-pic; bash do.sh -a &>> pics/log.txt'

TODO

• Get more sources: daily random code of the day? (github/gist) daily webcam image of the day/hour?
• Add some kind of heuristic to determine what is the best fit for a wallpaper (what feh option use) based on the resolution of the current monitor.