A python and shell script to set the wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most trending google searches.
A python and shell script to set the wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most trending google searches.
This project is inspired from process-wallpaper. You can check it out for the wordcloud of most resource hungry processes running in your system.
python3
gsettings
or feh
To set the generated wordcloud as the wallpaperxvfb
To simulate a display and run everything in memoryfirefox
web browserpip install -r requirements.txt
selenium
To scrape the data from Google trends
pyvirtualdisplay
Python wrapper for xvfb
wordcloud
To generate the wordcloudPIL
Python imaging libraryNOTE You will need to download the webdriver for selenium
. Geckodriver (webdriver for firefox) can be downloaded from here.
git clone https://github.com/shardul08/Google-Trend-Wallpaper.git
cd Google-Trend-Wallpaper
setup.sh
with./setup.sh
This will install all the required dependencies and set the wallpaper.
Run ./updateWallpaper.sh
to update the wallpaper to the wordcloud of the latest trends.
You can set your region/country to get the trending searches in line #30
of generateWallpaper.py
You can set the number of days for which you want the trending searches in line #31
of generateWallpaper.py
NOTE If the wallpaper is not set automatically, you can set wallpaper.png
as the wallpaper manually.
If you want the wallpaper to refresh/update every hour, you can add a cron job to run the script every hour.
To add a cron job, run
crontab -e
append the following
0 * * * * cd path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log > 2>&1
This will refresh the wallpaper every hour. You can customize this command to refresh the wallpaper as often you want.
If you want adjust the brightness of the wallpaper you can use the dim or brighten commands:
./setBrightness.sh dim|brighten XX
Where XX is the percentage you would like to dim or brighten the image. For example ./setBrightness.sh dim 20
would dim the current wallpaper by 20% and then set the new image as your background. Again you can set wallpaper.png manually if it fails to do it automatically.