Chris Daniel cjdaniel
cjdaniel
/ dscovr-epic-desktop
Last active
February 4, 2016 15:25
— forked from quinncomendant/dscovr-epic-desktop
This is an OS X command-line script that downloads the latest DSCOVR:EPIC <http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/> image and sets it as your desktop picture. Prerequisites: requires installing Homebrew <http://brew.sh/> and then the jshon tool (`brew install jshon`). Then you can run the command manually, or add it to your crontab.
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| download_directory="$HOME/Pictures/Wallpapers/epic-earth"; | |
| apiurl="http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/images.php"; | |
| curl -s "$apiurl" | jshon -a -e image -u | while read image; do | |
| destfile="$download_directory/$image.jpg"; | |
| mkdir -p "$download_directory"; | |
| if [[ -n "$image" && ! -f "$destfile" ]]; then | |
| echo "New 🌍 ! $image.jpg"; | |
| curl -so "$destfile" "http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/epic-archive/jpg/$image.jpg"; | |
| ln -sf "$destfile" "$download_directory/latest.jpg"; |