Example: setting a Chromecast live wallpaper on linux for the Gnome desktop with Python3, Selenium and Chromedriver

captureLiveWP.py

# make sure you have Selenium installed: https://pypi.org/project/selenium/
# make sure you have the latest chromedriver installed: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

# save this file somewhere, change the paths as you need and make it autostart. enjoy. 

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
import os
import time
import datetime

# Set path Selenium
DRIVER_PATH= '/PATH_TO_YOUR_CHROMEDRIVER' # change the path to the downloaded chromedriver executable
# url of your live wp
url = "https://clients5.google.com/cast/chromecast/home/"  # change the url to your desired live wp
# make sure you start chromedriver as a service on linux
service = Service(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH)

# Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1200")  # Set the window size, e.g. the resolution of your screen to make the wp the right size

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=service)
    
driver.get(url)

time.sleep(30) # wait 30 seconds, just to make sure

while True:    
    driver.get_screenshot_as_file("/home/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_WP_Dir/.tmp.png") 
    
    time.sleep(10)
    
    os.system("gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///home/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_WP_Dir/.tmp.png'")
    
    time.sleep(20)