daily-wallpaper

Node script that scrapes the Unsplash.com photo of the day from their homepage and sets it as the desktop background. The official API doesn't seem to have a way of getting that photo.

This was meant for personal use, and can break at any time since it depends on the Unsplash DOM.

Using it

Make sure you have Node.js and Git installed.

cd wherever/you/want
git clone https://github.com/Pixelrobin/daily-wallpaper.git
cd daily-wallpaper
npm install

Then, to run, simply do node index at the directory where everything was installed. This will perform the action once. In my use case I just set it up to run at startup for me.

Currently only tested on windows, but should technically work on other platforms.

Future plans

This was just a quick and dirty script for my needs, but maybe I'll take it further. Here are some ideas:

Make it into a serverless function?
Host it on an rss feed?
Make a twitter bot?
Make a desktop app?
Add more options then use the actual Unsplash Source API?
Make it an actual node module?
Make it into a CLI?

Contributing

Feel free to open up issues and make PRs if this is something you're interested in.

Disclaimer

This is not offically associated with Unsplash in any way. Things can and probably will break eventually.