MichaelPote
/ himawari.ps1
Created
February 3, 2016 19:11
Windows Powershell Script to download the latest image from the Himawari-8 satelite, combine the tiles into a single image, convert to jpg and then set as the desktop background.
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| # | |
| # Himawari-8 Downloader | |
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| # This script will scrape the latest image from the Himawari-8 satellite, recombining the tiled image, | |
| # converting it to a JPG which is saved in My Pictures\Himawari\ and then set as the desktop background. | |
| # | |
| # http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm | |
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| # Simple bijective function | |
| # Basically encodes any integer into a base(n) string, | |
| # where n is ALPHABET.length. | |
| # Based on pseudocode from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-shortener/742047#742047 | |
| ALPHABET = | |
| "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789".split(//) | |
| # make your own alphabet using: | |
| # (('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a + (0..9).to_a).shuffle.join |