[Random Wallpaper] Scraper to get a random wallpaper from various websites. Most are broken. Uses fbsetbg (fluxbox) and gsettings (Gnome 3/Unity) to set background. #desktop #obsolete

random_wallpaper.sh

#!/bin/bash

IMG_DIRECTORY="${HOME}/.random_wallpaper"

function setit() {
    fbsetbg -a "$(readlink -f "$1")"
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://$(readlink -f "$1")"
}

function flik() {
	echo "flikie.com"
	url="$(curl http://www.flikie.com/ | sed -nr 's/.*src="([^"]+)-[0-9]+x[0-9]+.(jpg|png)" class="featured-hover-random.*/\1.\2/p' | head -1)"
	curl -O "$url"
	setit "$(basename "$url")"
}

function wallbase() {
	echo "wallbase.cc"
	wget --no-use-server-timestamps $(curl $(curl http://wallbase.cc/random/23/eqeq/1920x1080/0/100/20 | grep 'wallpaper/' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | head -n1) | grep -A4 bigwall | grep img | awk -F'"' '{print $2}')
	setit $(ls -1t | head -n1)
}

function free4u() {
	echo "free4uwallpapers.org"
	id="$(curl http://www.free4uwallpapers.org/random.php | grep img_box | sed 's/></>\n</g' | sed -nr "s|.*class='img_box' src='http://www.free4uwallpapers.org/wallpapers/thumbs/([0-9]+)_thumb.jpg.*|\1|p" | head -1)" #'
	curl -o "$id.jpg" "http://www.free4uwallpapers.org/download.php?id=${id}.jpg"
	setit "$id.jpg"
}

function deviant() {
	echo "deviantart.com"
	url="$(curl "http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=24&q=wallpaper" | grep vinyl  | sed 's/></>\n</g' | sed -nr 's/.*super_fullimg="([^"]+)".*/\1/p' | shuf)" #"'
	curl -O "$url"
	setit "$(basename "$url")"
}

function wallpaperhere() {
    base="http://www.wallpaperhere.com"
    echo "$base"
    img="$(curl -L "$base/random-wallpapers" | sed -nr 's|^<a href="([^"]+)"><img src="/thumbnails.*|\1|p' | shuf | head -1)"
    orig="$(curl -L "$base$img/download_preview" | sed -nr 's|<dd class="view_size"><a class="[^"]*" href="([^"]+)">Original Size.*|\1|p')"
    final="$(curl -L "$base$orig" | sed -nr 's|^<img src="(/view[^"]+)".*|\1|p')" #'
    wget "$base$final"
    setit "$(basename "$final")"
}

if [ ! -d "$IMG_DIRECTORY" ]
then
    mkdir "$IMG_DIRECTORY"
fi

pushd "$IMG_DIRECTORY"
i=$((RANDOM%4))
if [ $i -eq 0 ]
then
	flik
elif [ $i -eq 1 ]
then
	wallbase
elif [ $i -eq 2 ]
then
	free4u
elif [ $i -eq 3 ]
then
	wallpaperhere
elif [ $i -eq -1 ]
then
	deviant
fi
popd

I don't use this at all anymore. It's possible that it's entirely broken. I don't intend to update it, as I have no more use for it. I now use Variety to fetch and set my wallpaper.