Are you tired of downloading images off Reddit and setting it to your desktop wallpaper?

Look no further, here is a script that does that for you! (Only if you are mac user.)

Supports Resolution and multiple subreddits.

Also, runs by itself every 3 days*

• Only on Mac (Tested on Catalina)
• Python 3.7+ (I think, i have used 3.9, but should work with 3.7)

1. Create a reddit account and and create an app and get two things and make up something for user-agent:

• client_id
• client_secret
• user-agent Something like scrapeit <username>

2. Run ./mac-setup.sh; this should does following:

• Configuration folder under $HOME/.config/scrapeit
• Image folder under $HOME/scrapeit
• Secret file under $HOME/.config/scrapeit/secret.yaml
• Log folder under $HOME/.config/scrapeit/log/
• Python virtual environment under $HOME/scrapeit/env/scrapeit and its dependencies
• Cronjob Configuration running every 3 days.

3. Should be good to go

Not easily configurable since this was created very quick; but following should be in your mind if you were to fork this.

Lots of configurations with this script.

scrapeit-onescript.py

• SUBREDDITS ; without /r just the name of subreddit
• IMAGE_RESOLUTION_MIN; if you don't care about resolution use this `(float('-inf'), float('-inf'))
• IMAGE_RESOLUTION_MAX; if you don't care about resolution use this `(float('inf'), float('inf'))
• MAX_SEARCH
• MAX_IMAGE_PER_SUBREDDIT this is per run; 2 subreddits means 4 images per run
• MAX_IMAGE this is overall files numbers in directory; if script sees more than MAX_IMAGE it will delete oldest one first
• MAX_HISTORY The script is using pickle to ignore reddit submission that has been searched before; this should be able to go about a million before mac goes boom boom;

If you are lazy just do this;

1. Create a folder that you want
2. Change IMAGE_LOCATION line in scrapeit-onescript.py

Currently, the script, mac-setup.sh is only looking for 3 day configuartion when de-duping; if you want more frequent or lazier cron configuration; you need to remove the entry in crontab and then change CRON_JOB variable in mac-setup.sh