National Geographic Photo of the Day - Mac Desktop Wallpaper
Note: this post is truly for educational purpose. National geographic Website publishes photo of the day on a daily basis on http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day . Following is a script which will automatically download and apply the image as wallpaper. (Only wallpaper applying is mac script, downloading part is linux.) #! /bin/sh currentPath = ` pwd ` rm gallery . json curl 'http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/_jcr_content/.gallery.json' -o gallery . json photoOfTheDay = `cat gallery . json | python -c "import sys, json; gallery = json.load(sys.stdin); print gallery['items'][0]['url'] + gallery['items'][0]['originalUrl']" ` filename = `cat gallery . json | python -c "import sys, json; gallery = json.load(sys.stdin); print gallery['items'][0]['publishDate'] + '.' + gallery['items'][0]['title']" ` echo 'image url