Well after a while of testing my previous script I found that the overall quality of the images I was getting
was good but from time to time a really horrible image would popup, so I decided to try another approach.
I have heard about Flickr’s interestingness, and decided to see if I could grab images [...]
Entries from December 2nd, 2008
Setting my desktop backgrounds from Flickr part 2
December 2nd, 2008 Comments
Tags: api · flickr · interestingness · python · simplejson
Setting my desktop backgrounds from Flickr
December 2nd, 2008 Comments
Well I’m now trying to publish here some of the tools I use and write everyday to customize my desktop, most of them are simple hacks, this time it’s a way to set your desktop background from a Flickr feed that is requested to be filtered using some tags.
Heres the code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import feedparser
import urllib
import random
FLCKR_API = [...]
Tags: awesome · backgrounds · bash · desktop · Esetroot · Eterm · flickr · python
