getwide

WallpapersWide.com content grabber

Helps enthusiasts to download beautiful wallpapers by categories for a multiple resolutions.

Disclaimer

This project is strongly intended only for an educational purposes of the Python's async/await mechanism.

The author is not responsible for any inappropriate use of this script.

Dependencies

System requires:

Python 3.5 or greater.

getwide requires several Python packages, specified in requirements.txt including virtualenv.

There is a bootstrap script to satisfy such dependencies:

$ ./script/bootstrap

Usage

Getting help

To get help for command line parameters, run script with the --help argument:

$ python getwide.py --help

usage: getwide.py [-h] [-v] [-o OUTPUT] [-c CATEGORY] -r RESOLUTION
              [-t TIMEOUT]

WallpapersWide.com content grabber

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         log messages verbosity level
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        path for saving files
  -c CATEGORY, --category CATEGORY
                        process specified category
  -r RESOLUTION, --resolution RESOLUTION
                        grab specified resolution
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        add timeout for network I/O

So, how can I grab wallpapers?

In this example we run script with a several parameters:

Resolution (-r). This one is mandatory. You can grab more than one resolution at the same time by passing multiple -r arguments.
High verbosity level (-vv). Displays only errors and warning by default.
Target path for downloaded files (-o). Current working directory is the default value.
Big timeout value (-t). Ten seconds timeout is the default value.
Multiple categories to grab (-c). If no one category was specified, getwide grabs all of the available categories (very long time).

Here is the roadmap:

Open http://wallpaperswide.com/ in your favourite browser and examine which categories you want to grab.
Prepare a directory for further downloads with mkdir -p /path/to/downloads.

Activate virtual environment and run getwide script:

$ source .env/bin/activate

(.env) $ python getwide.py \
    -vv -o /path/to/downloads -t 50 -r 2560x1440 -c Girls -c Space -c Travel