This script changes your wallpaper to most upvoted image of the day on /r/wallpapers or from any other subreddit.
Run it on startup for new wallpaper on every session.
Supported: Linux (gnome, kde, mate, lxde), Windows and OS X
Make sure you have Python installed and PATH variable set.
If you don't have pip for Python:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
You will need modules requests and praw installed, which are in requirements.txt:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Follow this guide to install pip and configure PATH variable.
The rest is the same.
Update praw.ini:
You need to register this app with your reddit account. https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/
You need to copy your client id and client secret into the praw.ini file. The id will be in the upper left corner of your app information (it will be a long alphanumeric string). The secret will be labeled "secret".
Simply run:
python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py
If you wanna use other subreddit, include argument with the subreddit name:
python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py --subreddit art
If you want to use a public multireddit, you must specify the name of the redditor that owns the multireddit and the name of the multireddit. Example:
python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py --user redditor --multireddit nameOfMultireddit
If you don't want to change your wallpaper daily, you can use newest, hourly, weekly, monthly or yearly wallpaper too by adding one of the following arguments: new, hour, week, month, year to the script.
Example:
python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py --time week
NSFW images are disabled by default, to enable them add --nsfw.
On OS X, you can specify display number with option --display. Use 0 for all display (default), 1 for main display and so on.
To change default location where image will be saved, use --output folder/subfolder.
To make managment of the script simple, we can accomplish this using built-in Startup Applications.
Click on Add.
Note: you can use --subreddit and --time arguments here aswell.
We will be using Task Scheduler for this. You can find it in Windows search.
Once you open it, click on Create Basic Task
Follow the procedure.
In Add arguments field type the location of the script. Example
"D:\change_wallpaper_reddit.py"
or
"D:\change_wallpaper_reddit.py" --subreddit art --time week
You can configure this script to run at timed intervals in Windows using the Task Scheduler.
In Linux, you can write a cronjob or an anacron script. There are two environment variables that need to be set during the cron job or anacron script.
export DISPLAY=:0
The other variable is dependent on your desktop environment
KDE:
export KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
GNOME or Cinnamon:
export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=anything
Lubuntu:
export DESKTOP_SESSION=Lubuntu
mate:
export DESKTOP_SESSION=mate
Click here for instructions on configuring cron jobs.
Instead of writing arguments every time you run the script, you can also use configuration file which should be located at ~/.config/change_wallpaper_reddit.rc.
Example of configuration file:
subreddit=art
time=day