Script to download bing desktops?

[timonoj]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to download the daily bing wallpapers, but so far I'm SOL for KDE. I found a Suse script, but requires libraries from Suse and crashes. Did you ever come around any nice script that downloads the wallpapers for KDE? I know for gnome it works just fine.

Thank you!

[Rog132]

Boilerplate version...

OpenSuse: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...ktop-wallpaper


Downloading the:
- bing_wallpaper.sh
- kde4_set_wallpaper.sh

Looking the scripts - Notes:

Kubuntu is Debian based - we are not using the zypper
=> You will need to install

- xdotool
- gettext-base


I only have the KDE -> removing the generic DE parts + removing lot of stuff...

What was left

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Marguerite Su <i@marguerite.su>
# Version: 1.0
# License: GPL-3.0
# Description: Download Bing Wallpaper of the Day and set it as your Linux Desktop.

# $bing is needed to form the fully qualified URL for
# the Bing pic of the day
bing="www.bing.com"

# The mkt parameter determines which Bing market you would like to
# obtain your images from.
# Valid values are: en-US, zh-CN, ja-JP, en-AU, en-UK, de-DE, en-NZ, en-CA.
mkt="zh-CN"

# The idx parameter determines where to start from. 0 is the current day,
# 1 the previous day, etc.
idx="0"

# $xmlURL is needed to get the xml data from which
# the relative URL for the Bing pic of the day is extracted
xmlURL="http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=xml&idx=$idx&n=1&mkt=$mkt"

# The file extension for the Bing pic
picExt=".jpg"


# Download the highest resolution

    
for picRes in _1920x1200 _1366x768 _1280x720 _1024x768; do

   # Extract the relative URL of the Bing pic of the day from
   # the XML data retrieved from xmlURL, form the fully qualified
   # URL for the pic of the day, and store it in $picURL
   picURL=$bing$(echo $(curl -s $xmlURL) | grep -oP "<urlBase>(.*)</urlBase>" | cut -d ">" -f 2 | cut -d "<" -f 1)$picRes$picExt

   # $picName contains the filename of the Bing pic of the day
    picName=${picURL#*2f}

    # Download the Bing pic of the day
    curl -s -o "/usr/local/bing/DailyPicture.jpg" $picURL


    if file "/usr/local/bing/DailyPicture.jpg" | grep JPEG ; then break ; fi
done

The code will download the Daily picture information from the http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx and parse the image link. The script will download the image to the '/usr/local/bing/DailyPicture.jpg'.


Testing

Using anacron: http://askubuntu.com/questions/90816...-execution-tim

Checking that the script is executable.
Dropping the script (my_bing_wallpaper) to the /etc/cron.daily/.



Making the /usr/local/bing/ directory.

Testing the anacron:

:~$ sudo anacron -f -d
[sudo] password for rog132:
Anacron 2.3 started on 2014-02-04
Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min.
Will run job `cron.monthly' in 15 min.
Job `cron.daily' started
Job `cron.daily' terminated
Normal exit (1 job run)

The daily picture is there:



Adding the /usr/local/bing/ to the KDE wallpapers.



Seems to work at here...



may or may not work there.