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Improved version of getimg.sh - gets the 'image of the day' from NASA, writes the summary onto the image and sets it as the Gnome wallpaper.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
getimg.py
Gets the current image of the day from NASA and sets it as the
background in Gnome. The summary / description text is written
to the image.
Requires:
PIL (apt-get install python-imaging or pip install PIL)
feedparser (apt-get install python-feedparser or pip install feedparser)
Christian Stefanescu
http://0chris.com
Based on the bash script of Jessy Cowan-Sharp - http://jessykate.com
http://blog.quaternio.net/2009/04/13/nasa-image-of-the-day-as-gnome-background/
intelli_draw method from:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2004-December/003064.html
"""
import Image
import ImageDraw
import ImageFont
import urllib
import feedparser
import os
import commands
# Configurable settings
DOWNLOAD_FOLDER = '~/.backgrounds/'
FONT_PATH = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-B.ttf'
FONT_SIZE = 20
# how many empty text rows should be inserted to overcome top panel overlap
EMPTY_ROWS = 3
# Don't change stuff beyond this point
FEED_URL = 'http://www.nasa.gov/rss/lg_image_of_the_day.rss'
font = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_PATH, FONT_SIZE)
def get_latest_entry():
"""
Get URL and description of the latest entry in the feed
"""
feed = feedparser.parse(FEED_URL)
return (feed.entries[0].enclosures[0].href, feed.entries[0].summary)
def download_file(url):
"""
Get the latest NASA image of the day from the feed, returns the name
of the downloaded file.
"""
remote_file = urllib.urlopen(url)
local_name = url.split('/')[-1]
local_path = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(DOWNLOAD_FOLDER, local_name))
local_file = open(local_path, 'w')
local_file.write(remote_file.read())
remote_file.close()
local_file.close()
return local_path
def intelli_draw(drawer, text, font, containerWidth):
"""
Figures out how many lines (and at which height in px) are needed to print
the given text with the given font on an image with the given size.
Source:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2004-December/003064.html
"""
words = text.split()
lines = []
lines.append(words)
finished = False
line = 0
while not finished:
thistext = lines[line]
newline = []
innerFinished = False
while not innerFinished:
if drawer.textsize(' '.join(thistext), font)[0] > containerWidth:
newline.insert(0, thistext.pop(-1))
else:
innerFinished = True
if len(newline) > 0:
lines.append(newline)
line = line + 1
else:
finished = True
tmp = []
for i in lines:
tmp.append(' '.join(i))
lines = tmp
(width, height) = drawer.textsize(lines[0], font)
return (lines, width, height)
def write_description(img_file, text):
"""
Write the given text to the given imagefile and overwrite it.
"""
img = Image.open(img_file)
(img_width, img_height) = img.size
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
lines, tmp, h = intelli_draw(draw, text, font, img_width)
j = EMPTY_ROWS
for i in lines:
draw.text((0, 0 + j * h), i, font=font)
j = j + 1
img.save(open(img_file, 'w'), 'JPEG')
def set_gnome_wallpaper(file_path):
command = "gconftool-2 --set \
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename \
--type string '%s'" % file_path
status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(command)
return status
if __name__ == '__main__':
if not os.path.exists(os.path.expanduser(DOWNLOAD_FOLDER)):
os.makedirs(os.path.expanduser(DOWNLOAD_FOLDER))
(url, text) = get_latest_entry()
img_file = download_file(url)
write_description(img_file, text)
status = set_gnome_wallpaper(img_file)
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