Google-Trend-Wallpaper

A python and shell script to set the wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most trending google searches.

This project is inspired from process-wallpaper. You can check it out for the wordcloud of most resource hungry processes running in your system.

Dependencies

• python3
• gsettings or feh To set the generated wordcloud as the wallpaper
• xvfb To simulate a display and run everything in memory
• firefox web browser

Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• selenium To scrape the data from Google trends
• pyvirtualdisplay Python wrapper for xvfb
• wordcloud To generate the wordcloud
• PIL Python imaging library

NOTE You will need to download the webdriver for selenium. Geckodriver (webdriver for firefox) can be downloaded from here.

Setup

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/shardul08/Google-Trend-Wallpaper.git

• Change directory to the repo

cd Google-Trend-Wallpaper

• Run setup.sh with

./setup.sh

This will install all the required dependencies and set the wallpaper.

Usage

Run ./updateWallpaper.sh to update the wallpaper to the wordcloud of the latest trends.

You can set your region/country to get the trending searches in line #30 of generateWallpaper.py

You can set the number of days for which you want the trending searches in line #31 of generateWallpaper.py

NOTE If the wallpaper is not set automatically, you can set wallpaper.png as the wallpaper manually.

If you want the wallpaper to refresh/update every hour, you can add a cron job to run the script every hour.

To add a cron job, run

crontab -e

append the following

0 * * * * cd path/to/script/directory && ./updateWallpaper.sh > /tmp/wallpaper.log > 2>&1

This will refresh the wallpaper every hour. You can customize this command to refresh the wallpaper as often you want.

If you want adjust the brightness of the wallpaper you can use the dim or brighten commands:

./setBrightness.sh dim|brighten XX

Where XX is the percentage you would like to dim or brighten the image. For example ./setBrightness.sh dim 20 would dim the current wallpaper by 20% and then set the new image as your background. Again you can set wallpaper.png manually if it fails to do it automatically.