load_from_reddit.sh

if [ x$1 == "x--help" ]; then
cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 [subreddit] [past]

subreddit: string, any subreddit with images
past: day|week|month|year

EOF
fi


subreddit=${1:-itookapicture}
past=${2:-month}

link="https://www.reddit.com/r/$subreddit/top.json?sort=top&t=$past.json"
# link="https://www.reddit.com/r/itookapicture/top.json?sort=top&t=month.json"


image_link=$(python - << END
import requests, random

# choose some common user agent to not get blocked
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36"

data = requests.get("$link", headers={'user-agent': user_agent}).json()
data = data['data']['children']  # 25 results
data = data[:min(len(data), 10)]

idx = random.randint(0, len(data))
image_link = data[idx]['data']['preview']['images'][0]['source']['url']
print(image_link)
END
)


echo $image_link

filename=$(mktemp --suffix=.png)
wget $image_link -O $filename
feh --bg-fill $filename
rm $filename