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.
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10.
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 can be done running following commands:
pip install requests
pip install praw
Follow this guide to install pip and configure PATH variable.
The rest is the same.
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 earthporn
If you don't want to change your wallpaper daily, you can use top weekly, monthly or yearly wallpaper too by adding argument week or month or year to the script.
Example:
python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py --time week
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