http://simpledesktops.com/ wallpaper downloader

simpledesktops_scraper.rb

require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
require 'active_support/core_ext/numeric/conversions'

@base = "http://simpledesktops.com"

def scrape_page(url, page_number = 0)
  Dir.mkdir "#{page_number}" unless File.exists? "#{page_number}"

  doc = Hpricot( open( url ) )

  hrefs = ( doc/".desktop > a" ).map { |a| a.attributes["href"] }
  puts "Scraping #{url} ..."

  total_size = 0
  total = hrefs.size
  done = 0

  threads = hrefs.map do |href|
    Thread.new do
      name = "#{File.basename href}.png"
      path = File.join(page_number.to_s, name)

      if (File.exists?(path))
        done += 1
        next
      end

      ( Hpricot( open( @base + href ) )/".desktop > a" ).each do |a|
        open( @base + a.attributes["href"] ) do |image|
          File.open( path, "wb" ) do |f|
            f.write image.read
            done += 1
            total_size += image.size

            print " %2d/%2d %5.1f%% %8s          \r" % [done, total, done.to_f / total.to_f * 100.0, total_size.to_s(:human_size)]
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end

  threads.map &:join

  puts ""

  next_page = ( doc/".back" )
  return if next_page.size === 0

  next_page_url = @base + next_page[0].attributes["href"]
  page_number += 1

  scrape_page next_page_url, page_number
end

puts "Starting..."
scrape_page @base + '/browse'

You propose to setup a whole infrastructure to use just one little downloader :-)

Why, yes I am. Don't like it, don't buy it, it's small utility thing after all, everybody can write their own for theirs infra, amirite?

^_^