daily-pic

Get and set the image of the day from different sites:

Astronomy

nasa.apod
nasa.apod.rand
nasa.iod
nasa.jpl
skymap.astrobot
skymap.heavensabove
skymap.astronetru

Comics

dilbert
calvinandhobbes
eatthattoast
xkcd

Misc

4walled
interfacelift
wallhaven
imgur.albums
imgur.subreddit
reddit
deviantart
simpledesktops

Nature

bing
chromecast
natgeo
nasa earth observatory iotd

Weather

latlong.nasa.msfc
america.smn
america.nasa.goes
america.fvalk
america.s.aw
america.n.aw
globe.dienet.mercator
globe.dienet.peters
globe.dienet.mollweide
globe.dienet.rectangular
arg.smn
arg.nexsat

Feel free to add your own source :)

Usage

Pass the correspondent flag as argument to the script. For example, to get and set the wallpaper from nasa apod use the -a flag:

$ bash do.sh -a nasa.jpl
# NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Category: universe

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:32:35 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) PHP/5.5.9 JRun/4.0
Last-Modified: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:46:19 GMT
ETag: "4647c4f-cd8d-4a66225dba4c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 52621
Content-Type: image/jpeg
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

URL:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/wallpaper/PIA13066-800x600.jpg
FILE: /home/sendai/projects/daily-pic/pics/PIA13066-800x600.jpg

Installation steps

Go to where you want to save this script:

$ cd /home/usernamehere/projects

Clone this repo (or just download the zip file):

$ git clone 'https://github.com/azimut/daily-pic'

Add the following crontab as root or using sudo (if you are using vixie-cron or if you know how to configure cron you might try to add this as user instead of root):

# crontab -e
0 */1 * * * su - usernamehere -c 'cd /home/usernamehere/projects/daily-pic; bash do.sh -a &>> pics/log.txt'

TODO

Get more sources: daily random code of the day? (github/gist) daily webcam image of the day/hour?
Add some kind of heuristic to determine what is the best fit for a wallpaper (what feh option use) based on the resolution of the current monitor.