Download wallpaper of the day at bing and set as wallpaper in xfce4

set_wallpaper.py

import os
import urllib
import json

from urllib.parse import urlparse
from urllib import request

"""
This script downloads bing's image of the day on the specified folder and set it as wallpaper in xfce4
"""
IMAGES_DIR = "%s/Imagens/wallpapers" % os.getenv("HOME")

API_URL = "http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1&mkt=pt-BR"
API_ROOT_URL = "http://www.bing.com"

content = request.urlopen(API_URL)
content = json.loads(content.read().decode('utf-8'))
image_url = "%s%s" % (API_ROOT_URL, content['images'][0]['url'])
image_filename = os.path.basename(urlparse(image_url).path)

output_path = "%s/%s" % (IMAGES_DIR, image_filename)
request.urlretrieve(image_url, output_path)

os.system("xfconf-query --channel xfce4-desktop --property /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/workspace0/last-image --set %s" % output_path)