/Windows10-Spotlight-Crawler

Use default Windows 10 lock screen images as your desktop background.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Archiving

(June 29, 2021) This project is no longer maintained. Check out the C++ version of the same program here:

Does not support Python 3.8

PIL, the image library used in this project, does not yet support Python 3.8.

Overview

  • Windows 10 by default ships with beautiful image slide shows (spotlight).
  • This script saves spotlight so that images can be used for desktop background image.

Miscellaneous Details

  • Windows 10 saves miscellaneous image files, including the files for the lockscreen slide show, in a local directory under Users/name/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager/_cw5n1h2txyewy/LocalState/Assets
  • In addition to spotlight images, this folder also contains icon files for Windows app.
  • This script will filter out any non-spotlight images and copy them to designated folder.

Todo

  • Create GUI file to get rid of all the commandline interaction
  • Add feature for an one-time installation and regular automatic script execution

requirements

  • Python==3.6.7 or above | Pillow>=6.2.0
  • Windows 10