Connects to simpledesktops.com and grabs a random image to assign as your profiles desktop image.

gistfile1.py

import random
import urllib
import urllib2
import tempfile
import subprocess
from appscript import app, mactypes
import lxml.html as lh

url = "http://simpledesktops.com/browse/"
random_page = str(random.randint(1,20))
random_image = str(random.randint(1,29))
website = urllib2.urlopen(url + random_page)

parse = lh.parse(website)
	
link = parse.xpath("//div[@class='desktop']/a")
grab_image = link[1].get('href')

set_desktop = tempfile.mkstemp()
urllib.urlretrieve(grab_image, set_desktop[1])

app('Finder').desktop_picture.set(mactypes.File(set_desktop[1]))