PyBingWallpaper
What pybingwallpaper does
Download the wallpaper offered by Bing.com and set it current wallpaper background.
Another project for the same purpose but download from National Geographic can be found here
Auto startup
Windows
Download installer from releases page and install it.
**Note: Please backup the `settings.conf` under the installation path before upgrading!**
**注意：建议升级前备份安装目录下的`settings.conf`文件！**
A shortcut will be created in your startup folder. You can edit the configuration to adjust features.
Linux with Gnome
You just need to add a startup application:
gnome-session-properties
then add a startup program with:
Name: pybingwallpaper
Command: python3 /path/to/pybingwallpaper/src/main.py -b
Comment: download and update wallpaper!
You can also append arguments in Command box.
Usage
usage: pybingwallpaper [-h] [-v] [--config-file CONFIG_FILE]
[--generate-config] [-b] [--foreground]
[-c {au,br,ca,cn,de,fr,jp,nz,us,uk,auto}]
[--market MARKET] [-d] [-i INTERVAL] [-k]
[-m {prefer,collect,highest,insist,manual,never}]
[--collect COLLECT] [--image-size IMAGE_SIZE]
[-o OFFSET] [--proxy-server PROXY_SERVER]
[--proxy-port PROXY_PORT]
[--proxy-username PROXY_USERNAME]
[--proxy-password PROXY_PASSWORD] [--redownload]
[-s {no,win,gnome2,gnome3}] [--setter-args SETTER_ARGS]
[-t OUTPUT_FOLDER] [--database-file DATABASE_FILE]
[--database-no-image] [--server {global,china,custom}]
[--custom-server CUSTOMSERVER]
Download the wallpaper offered by Bing.com and set it current wallpaper
background.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show version information
--config-file CONFIG_FILE
'specify configuration file, use `settings.conf` in
installation directory by default.
--generate-config generate a configuration file containing arguments
specified in command line and exit. to generate
default config file, issue without other command
arguments. path and name of configuration file can be
specified with --config-file
-b, --background work in background (daemon mode) and check wallpaper
periodically (interval can be set by --interval).
--foreground force working in foreground mode to cancel the effect
of `background` in config file.
-c {au,br,ca,cn,de,fr,jp,nz,us,uk,auto}, --country {au,br,ca,cn,de,fr,jp,nz,us
,uk,auto}
select country code sent to bing.com. bing.com in
different countries may show different backgrounds.
au: Australia br: Brazil ca: Canada cn: China
de:Germany fr: France jp: Japan nz: New Zealand us:
USA uk: United Kingdom auto: select country according
to your IP address (by Bing.com) Note: only China(cn),
New Zealand(nz) and USA(us) have high resolution
(1920x1200) wallpapers; the rest offer 1366x768 only.
--market MARKET specify market from which the wallpaper should be
downloaded. Market is a more generic way to specify
language-country of bing.com. The list of markets may
grow sometimes, and different language of the same
country may have different image, so consider using it
instead of country. Market code should be specified in
format 'xy-ab' such as en-us. Note: specify this
parameter will override any settings to --country.
-d, --debug enable debug outputs. The more --debug the more
detailed the log will be
-i INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL
interval between each two wallpaper checkings in unit
of hours. applicable only in `background` mode. at
lease 1 hour; 2 hours by default.
-k, --keep-file-name keep the original filename. By default downloaded file
will be renamed as 'wallpaper.jpg'. Keep file name
will retain all downloaded photos
-m {prefer,collect,highest,insist,manual,never}, --size-mode {prefer,collect,h
ighest,insist,manual,never}
set selecting strategy when wallpapers in different
size are available (normally 1920x1200 and 1366x768).
`prefer` (default) uses high resolution if it's
available, otherwise downloads normal resolution;
`insist` always use high resolution and ignore other
pictures (Note: some countries have only normal size
wallpapers, if `insist` is adopted with those sites,
no wallpaper can be downloaded, see `--country` for
more); `highest` use the highest available resolution,
that is, 1920x1200 for HD sites, 1920x1080 for others;
`never` always use normal resolution; `manual` use
resolution specified in `--image-size` `collect` is
obsolete and only kept for backward compatibility,
equals highest mode together with --collect=accompany
option.
--collect COLLECT items to be collected besides main wallpaper, can be
assigned more than once in CLI or as comma separated
list from config file. currently `accompany`, `video`
and `hdvideo` are supported. `accompany` - some
markets (i.e. en-ww) offers two wallpapers every day
with same image but different Bing logo (English and
Chinese respectively). enables this will download both
original wallpaper and its accompanyings. `video` -
bing sometimes (not everyday) release interesting
animated mp4 background, use this to collect them.
`hdvideo` - HD version of video.
--image-size IMAGE_SIZE
specify resolution of image to download. check
`--size-mode` for more
-o OFFSET, --offset OFFSET
start downloading from the photo of 'N' days ago.
specify 0 to download photo of today.
--proxy-server PROXY_SERVER
proxy server url, ex: http://10.1.1.1
--proxy-port PROXY_PORT
port of proxy server, default: 80
--proxy-username PROXY_USERNAME
optional username for proxy server authentication
--proxy-password PROXY_PASSWORD
optional password for proxy server authentication
--redownload do not check history records. Download must be done.
downloaded picture will still be recorded in history
file.
-s {no,win,gnome2,gnome3}, --setter {no,win,gnome2,gnome3}
specify interface to be called for setting wallpaper.
'no' indicates downloading-only; 'gnome2/3' are only
for Linux with gnome; 'win' is for Windows only.
Customized setter can be added as dev doc described.
Default: win for win32, gnome3 for Linux
--setter-args SETTER_ARGS
arguments for external setters
-t OUTPUT_FOLDER, --output-folder OUTPUT_FOLDER
specify the folder to store photos. Use
'~/MyBingWallpapers' folder in Linux, 'C:/Documents
and Settings/<your-username>/MyBingWallpapers in
Windows XP or 'C:/Users/<your-
username>/MyBingWallpapers' in Windows 7 by default
--database-file DATABASE_FILE
specify the sqlite3 database used to store meta info
of photos. leave it blank to disable database storage.
--database-no-image images will be embedded into database by default.
Exclude images from database can reduce the size of
database file.
--server {global,china,custom}
select bing server used for meta data and wallpaper
pictures. it seems bing.com uses different servers and
domain names in china. global: use bing.com of course.
china: use s.cn.bing.net. (note: use this may freeze
market or country to China zh-CN) custom: use the
server specified in option "customserver"
--custom-server CUSTOMSERVER
specify server used for meta data and wallpaper photo.
you need to set --server to 'custom' to enable the
custom server address.
Release Note
-
2019-04-30 1.5.5
- Compatible with Bing's new URL format (accompany pictures this time, #55 #56)
-
2019-03-15 1.5.4
- Compatible with Bing's new URL format
-
2016-04-06 1.5.1
- Minor bug fix for Python 3.5 (#43)
- Obsolete 1.5.0 due to MS Windows Defender raise (false) alarm on the installer (#44)
-
2015-12-08 1.5.0
- Can collect video now! (#34)
- Decouple collect mode from market setting (#35)
- Better compatibility with win 8 and higher (#31 and #40)
- Avoid deleting collected wallpaper at uninstallation (#33)
-
2014-09-08 1.4.4
- Support configurable bing server address (#27)
-
2014-04-18 1.4.4b01
- Support download records database (#18), you can build you own bing album now.
-
2013-12-24 1.4.3
- Fix #13 enhance robustness of network connection status: retry in 60 seconds after network failure
- Fix #14 download image with Chinese logo whenever a 1920x1200 picture is downloaded: add a collect mode, read use collect mode 使用收集模式 for more
- Fix #15 use n=1 instead of n=10 for more backtracking room: change default n to 1
- Fix #16 can't read settings.conf when run out of installation dir: read settings.conf from the same path of main.py by default
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2013-12-24 1.4.2
- Support http/https proxy. Read 配置指南 Proxy guidance for details.
-
2013-12-21 1.4.1
- Background mode bugfix
-
2013-12-21 1.4.0
- Use configuration file;
- Support specify market
- Support manually set picture resolution
- Support downloading 1920x1080 images for pages without wallpaper link
-
2013-09-24 1.3.0
- supports high resolution wallpapers
- change default checking interval to 2 hours
- obsolete option
-fand--persistence - fix none type error when offset exceeds boundary issue #2
- fix none type error when download picture fails issue #3
