Set random anime wallpaper in every x minutes.

setRandomWallpaper.py

# pip install beautifulsoup4 requests schedule
import os
import random
import re
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import ctypes
import schedule
import time

# after x minutes, it will change wallpaper
minutes = 1

print(f"Wallpaper will change every {minutes} minute(s) 🙂")

def set_random_wallpaper():
    page = random.randint(1, 500)
    # get the html content of the website
    htmlContent = requests.get(f"https://wall.alphacoders.com/by_category.php?id=3&name=Anime+Wallpapers&filter=4K+Ultra+HD&page={page}").text
    
    # parse the html content
    soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlContent, 'html.parser')
    
    # find the wallpaper container
    thumb_containers = soup.find_all('div', attrs={'class': 'thumb-container'})
    
    # list variable to store urls
    wallpapers = []
    
    # loop over all container
    for container in thumb_containers:
        # get preview image url
        url = container.div.a.picture.img['src']
        # extract digit code from url
        codes = re.findall("\d{2,}", url)
        # get the format of the image
        image_format = url.split(".")[::-1][0]
        # generate new url 
        new_url = url.split("thumb")[0]
        # create real high quality image url from above extracted data : <domain>/<digit code>.<image_format>
        wallpapers.append(f"{new_url}{codes[1]}.{image_format}")

    # send request to get image content    
    image = requests.get(random.choice(wallpapers))
    
    # save image 
    with open('temp.jpg', 'wb') as f:
        f.write(image.content)

    #finally set wallpaper    
    ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(20,0,os.path.abspath("temp.jpg"),0)

# Time of schedule
schedule.every(minutes).minutes.do(set_random_wallpaper)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(5)