mosajjal / bing-wallpaper

Python Script that sets the daily Bing picture as a Desktop Wallpaper

Bing-Wallpaper

A Python3 Script to set the daily background image of www.bing.com as Desktop Wallpaper of Linux or Windows.

I've used feh utility to set background in i3. Don't know if it works in other distros. So you should install feh for this to work (obviously)

HowTo Use:

Just take a look at the 2-3 variables at the beginning of the script and change them to your needs. The Script will download the daily pictures in the same directory as the repo, you can change it inside the script.

Note:

This isn't really finished, (especially regarding compatibility) but maybe this already is useful for someone. If you have any questions or ideas how to improve this, tell me! ;-)

Additional tip:

Automate it! (Linux)

Make something like the following starting at boot time, to automate the process (change the paths to your needs):

#! /bin/bash
DATE=`date +%d-%m-%Y`
#only start the script if the todays picture doesn't exists
if [ ! -a /pathTo/saveDir/bing_wp_$DATE".jpg" ]; then
	python3 /pathTo/pythonScript/bing-wallpaper.py
fi