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Download the photo of the day from the National Geographic website and save it as a desktop wallpaper.

Installation

gem install ngpod_scraper

Requirements

nokogiri
pow
rmagick
valuable

Usage

ngpod_scaper path/to/config.yml

Sample config.yml

url: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day
show_logs: true
photo:
  path_format:                '/home/gsmendoza/Pictures/national-geographic/#{year}-#{month}/#{name}'
  wallpaper_path_format:      '/home/gsmendoza/Pictures/national-geographic/photo-of-the-day.jpg'
  wallpaper_width:            1280
  wallpaper_height:           800
  wallpaper_background_color: black

path_format and wallpaper_path_format are evaluated as strings. For convenience, the following values are provided:

time, year, month, day, hour - based on Time.now
name - the filename of the photo

Displaying the photos as your screensaver

In Ubuntu, you'll need to do this.

ngpod_scraper