README.md

ApodWallpaperDaily

An experiment to set desktop wallpaper to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

MacOS working beta is here! - Installation

Clone the repository or download the macos folder and run install.sh

What is up?

Aim is to code it for all popular platforms :) Help wanted and appreciated!

• Windows
  • Web scraping PowerShell module to download the APOD photo
  • Setting desktop wallpaper thru PS (working 50/50)
  • Set the script to run daily
• MacOS
  • Web scraping with curl and download image with wget
  • Setting desktop wallpaper using AppleScript (osascript)
  • Set the script to run daily at 12:00 with crontab
  • FIXME: Images should have different names cause the system does not always change the background
  • Setup a script and endpoint to download and install automatically
• Linux /Debian based

Known issues

General

• Unhandled case when APOD item is a video

Mac

• Please make sure you have wget installed as /usr/local/bin/wget
• This can be done by $ brew install wget