photowall

Photowall

Generate grid wallpapers based on photo streams from Instagram, Tumblr or 500px.

Build & Install

Install photowall with:

$ go get github.com/gotschmarcel/photowall

Usage

The only required option is -profile. It specifies the account name from which the photos should be taken. The default API is Instagram.

$ photowall -profile jondoe

photowall provides a lot of options, such as background color, output size, spacing and more. To get an overview of all available options run $ photowall -h

Instagram

The Instagram sandbox allows you to use up to 20 square photos. Non-square photos are not supported! Also the -tag option is not available.

Example:

$ photowall -profile linxspirationofficial

Tumblr

In order to use the Tumblr API you must register your own application at https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps. After that, use the Consumer Key with -key <consumer_key> and you're good to go. Tumblr allows you to use unlimited photos as well as the tag filter.

Example:

$ photowall -api tumblr -key my_consumer_key -profile linxspiration.com -tags architecture

500px

500px requires a Consumer Key, so you must register an app at https://500px.com under Settings/Applications. Use -key <consumer_key> to pass it to photowall. 500px allows you to use as unlimited photos. Also the tag filter can be used to filter specific categories. The -profile options is a bit more complex with 500px, so take a look at the global features section. To use only a single user pass -profile "user:<username>".

Example:

$ photowall -api "500px" -key my_consumer_key -profile popular -tags "Black and White,Animals"

or

$ photowall -api "500px" -key my_consumer_key -profile user:mataneshel -tags "Black and White"

Cron and System Wallpaper

Use cron to automatically update the wallpaper in regular intervals.

Mac OS X

Here's a simple bash script which you can call from your cron job to regularly update the system wallpaper:

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.common

# Wait for network
CheckForNetwork
while [ "${NETWORKUP}" != "-YES-" ]; do
	sleep 5
	NETWORKUP=
	CheckForNetwork
done

datadir="$HOME/.photowall"

# Run photowall
photowall -profile linxspirationofficial

# Find new wallpaper file and update system background.
wallpaper=$(find "$datadir/cache" -iname "wallpaper_*")
/usr/bin/osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to set desktop picture to POSIX file \"$wallpaper\""

Linux

On Linux the command to programmatically update your system wallpaper depends on your window manager and shell.