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https://github.com/ssimunic/Daily-Reddit-Wallpaper

Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup
https://github.com/ssimunic/Daily-Reddit-Wallpaper

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Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup

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# Daily Reddit Wallpaper

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This script changes your wallpaper to most upvoted image of the day on [/r/wallpapers](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/) or from any other subreddit.



**Run it on startup for new wallpaper on every session.**



*Supported: Linux (gnome, kde, mate, lxde), Windows and OS X*



Dependencies

=======

Make sure you have [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/) installed and PATH variable set.



Ubuntu

------

If you don't have ```pip ``` for Python:

```

sudo apt-get install python-pip

```



You will need modules ```requests``` and ```praw``` installed, which are in requirements.txt:



```

pip install -r requirements.txt

```



Windows

------

Follow [this guide](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/) to install  ```pip```  and configure PATH variable.

The rest is the same.



Using script

=======



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 art

```



If you don't want to change your wallpaper daily, you can use newest, hourly, weekly, monthly or yearly wallpaper too by adding one of the following arguments: ```new```, ```hour```, ```week```, ```month```, ```year``` to the script.



Example:

```

python /home/silvio/Scripts/change_wallpaper_reddit.py --time week

```



NSFW images are disabled by default, to enable them add ```--nsfw```.



On OS X, you can specify display number with option ```--display```. Use 0 for all display (default), 1 for main display and so on.



To change default location where image will be saved, use ```--output folder/subfolder```.



Running on startup

=======

Ubuntu

------

To make managment of the script simple, we can accomplish this using built-in Startup Applications.



![Startup Applications](http://i.imgur.com/NDFmFd9.png)



Click on Add.



![Add new startup command](http://i.imgur.com/uFqQ8ky.png)



Note: you can use ```--subreddit``` and ```--time``` arguments here aswell.



Windows

------

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.



![Procedure](http://i.imgur.com/1uZMpyc.png)



![Procedure](http://i.imgur.com/3ApvF6W.png)



![Procedure](http://i.imgur.com/fPdwcyg.png)



![Procedure](http://i.imgur.com/zOCCfQI.png)



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

```



Running every minute or hour

=======



Look into using cronjobs on Linux or Task Scheduler on Windows for performing this.



Configuration file

=======



Instead of writing arguments every time you run the script, you can also use configuration file which should be located at ```~/.config/change_wallpaper_reddit.rc```.



Example of configuration file:



```

subreddit=art

time=day

```