bing-wallpaper-changer

README

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bing-wallpaper-changer

bing-wallpaper-changer is a cross-platform compatible wallpaper-changer (CLI).

It fetches the newest Bing wallpaper and sets it as a desktop background image. Custom watermark can be used on the downloaded image. GCP support for the translation and text2speech is provided as well. Done just for fun 😄

Features

• Crawl and fetch newest Bind wallpaper
  • Support multiple regions
  • Support multiple screen resolutions (😡 UltraHD is broken on the Bing side)
  • Download wallpapers up to seven days in the past
• Draw title on wallpapers
  • Support Google Cloud Translation Service for translation to English
  • Support Google Cloud Text2Speech Service for accessibility (playing the sound on darwin and linux only if compiled with CGO)
• Place QR code for the copyright links
• Draw watermarks
  • Scale down/up to match the resolution of the wallpaper
  • Rotate if necessary (only clockwise rotation by 90° supported)
• System tray interface (available) on darwin and linux only if compiled with CGO)

Usage

$ bing-wallpaper-changer -h
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>Usage of bing-wallpaper-changer:
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>Flags:
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>      --day int                          the day to fetch the wallpaper for, 0 is today, 1 is yesterday, and so on, 7 is the highest value, which is seven days ago
>      --description                      draw the description on the wallpaper (default true)
>      --download-directory string        the directory to download the wallpaper to (default "~/Pictures/BingWallpapers")
>      --download-only                    download the wallpaper only
>      --furigana-api-app-id string       the Goo Labs API App ID (labs.goo.ne.jp) for the furigana service, if not provided, github.com/sarumaj/go-kakasi will be used
>      --google-app-credentials string    the path to the Google App credentials file for the translation service for zh-CN, de-DE, ja-JP to en-US,
>                                         if not provided, the translation service will not be used
>      --qrcode                           draw the QR code on the wallpaper (default true)
>      --region string                    the region to fetch the wallpaper for, allowed values are: en-CA, zh-CN, de-DE, ja-JP, en-NZ, en-GB, en-US (default "de-DE")
>      --resolution string                the resolution of the wallpaper, allowed values are: 1366x768, 1920x1080, 3840x2160 (default "1920x1080")
>      --rotate-counter-clockwise         rotate the watermark counter-clockwise if necessary (default is clockwise)
>      --use-google-text2speech-service   use the Google Text2Speech service to record and play the audio description
>      --watermark string                 draw the watermark on the wallpaper (default "sarumaj.png")
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Examples

Default

Using default parameters:

Resized watermark

Using small PNG watermark: red-dot.png

Rotated watermark

Using vertical (portrait-mode) PNG watermark: car.png

Fetching Bing wallpaper for the ja-JP region

Using default parameters with region set to ja-JP: