BingWallpaperCrawler

Using python3 to crawl the Bing wallpaper

How to use

1. Download the "crawler.py" python file to your file system
2. Run it in command line with argument python crawler.py.
3. And it will automatically save today's bing wallpaper to your computer.

The default location is "G:/Pictures/", you can modify it directly in the source code. Thank you!

Besides

• If you are more interested other region's bing wallpaper today, you can easily do this by changing the url in the source file. Specifically, if you change url = "https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&cc=us" to url = "https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&cc=cn", it will download the Chinese Bing website wallpaper for you.

The meaning of the url in the crawler.py

Given url = "https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&cc=us"

• idx means index
  • if you change it to -1, it will download the next day's wallpaper for you(i.e. tomorrow's wallpaper);
  • if you change it to 1(or other positive number), it will download the wallpaper 1 day before(i.e. yesterday);
• n means the number of wallpapers it will load, with maximum number 8;
  • However, in the source code, I simplify the problem to download only the first picture that loaded. But you can change this by modifying addr = url_ori + imgList[0] and savepath name. It's quite easy.

Acknowledgement

舞恸零一's blog