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Last active June 19, 2018 10:23
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Sets National Geographic's Image of the Day as Desktop background for Mac OSX
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set_NatGeo_img_as_desktop.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cd ~/Pictures/NatGeo || exit 1
today="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"
hostname="https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com"
originalUrl="$(curl -s https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/_jcr_content/.gallery.json | jq -r '.items[0].originalUrl')"
fullPhotoUrl="${hostname}${originalUrl}"
curl -s "$fullPhotoUrl" -o "national-geographic-photo-of-the-day_${today}.jpg"
# Set desktop background to image
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db \
"update data set value = '~/Pictures/NatGeo/national-geographic-photo-of-the-day_${today}.jpg'"
killall Dock
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rk295 commented Jun 19, 2018

Updated to parse the JSON rather than grep the html source, that method was broken and this is far easier to manage. Also latest MacOS seems to require a killall Dock to actually reload the displayed picture.

And passes shellcheck!

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