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
orfeh
To set the generated wordcloud as the wallpaperxvfb
To simulate a display and run everything in memoryfirefox
web browser
Python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
selenium
To scrape the data from Google trendspyvirtualdisplay
Python wrapper forxvfb
wordcloud
To generate the wordcloudPIL
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.