rEarthPornBackgroundr

Mac OS X script to download hi-res images from various subreddits and store them in a folder for use in random Desktop & Screensaver system preference backgrounds

Overview

1. Downloads hi-res* files from a set of sub-reddits. Uses several built in command line tools from Mac OS X Developer tools including: curl, tidy, sips, cut, egrep, cp

2. There is a lot that can be done to clean this up and make it a little more robust and configurable but it should do the job.

Contributing

Feel free to fork and send pull requests. I just hacked this together out of frustration as I could find no tool to do the exact job.

Use

1. Open the Terminal.app
2. Change to a directory where you'll store the script. cd /path/to/project if it doesn't exist you can mkdir -p /path/to/project
3. Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/dwstevens/rEarthPornBackgroundr.git. This will create a directory called rEarthPornBackgroundr in the path you created/changed to in step 2.
4. Open the rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh script (e.g., nano rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh and modify the desktopImgDirectory variable. This should be the directory you specify in the Desktop & Screensaver system preference panel. Save the file, if using nano, control-x will do the job.
5. After saving the file, you may have to modify the exec flag on the file so that it can be run via a simple /path/to/project/rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh otherwise you have to run it with a bash prefix /bin/bash /path/to/project/rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh which ain't so bad?
6. Run the file via ./rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh, which assumes you are still in the directory with that file in it. Otherwise you either need to cd /path/to/project/rEarthPornBackgroundr or /path/to/project/rEarthPornBackgroundr/rEarthPornBackgroundr.sh
7. You will see a bunch of output, and if everything went ok, you'll have a bunch of new images in your designated desktop images folder.