Download simpledesktops wallpapers

simpledesktops_download.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""Download a whole page of wallpapers from simpledesktops.com.

Requires:
  - BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download

Usage:
$ ./simpledesktops_download.py "http://simpledesktops.com/browse/6/"
Downloading http://parsed.url.com/directory/subdir/wallpaper.png to wallpaper.png

- Please be gentle when downloading files.
- Browse around their site to give them support!
"""

__author__ = "Will Nowak <wan@ccs.neu.edu>"

import urllib
import urlparse
import os
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import sys

b = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read())

for x in b.findAll(attrs={'class':'desktop'}):
  uri = x.find('a')['href']
  parsed = urlparse.urlparse(uri)
  f = os.path.basename(parsed.path)
  print 'Downloading %s to %s' % (uri, f)
  urllib.urlretrieve(x.find('a')['href'], f)