Grab a quote from http://iheartquotes.com/api, generate image with the quote and embed it into wallpaper. (raw version)

quote.sh

#!/bin/sh

#
# quote api
#

alias getfortune='wget --timeout=3 -O - -q'
alias fortune='getfortune http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random'
alias myfortune='getfortune http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random?source=forrestgump'

OLD_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\t'
response=( `myfortune` )
IFS=$OLD_IFS

echo == Response:
echo ${response[*]}

#
# generate image
#

WALLPAPER_ORIGNAL="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/girl.jpg"
WALLPAPER_RESULT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/girl_with_quote.jpg"

# FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/dirt2death.ttf"
# FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/Cocaine sans.ttf"
# FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/EpoXY_histoRy.ttf" # !
FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/DISINTEG.TTF" # ! "
# FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/CheapInk.ttf" # "
# FONT="/home/m039/Desktop/wallpaper/tmp/fonts/broken15.ttf"

QUOTE="“"
TEXT="${response[0]}"

#filter text
TEXT=$(echo $TEXT | sed 's/ *$//g') # chomp
TEXT=$(echo $TEXT | sed 's/^"//g')
TEXT=$(echo $TEXT | sed 's/"$//g')
TEXT=$(echo $TEXT | sed 's/http.*//g')
TEXT=$(echo $TEXT | recode html..ascii)
TEXT+=${QUOTE}

#filter author
AUTHOR="${response[1]}"
AUTHOR=$(echo $AUTHOR | sed 's/http.*//g')
AUTHOR=$(echo $AUTHOR | recode html..ascii)

echo == Filtered text:
echo $TEXT

echo == Filtered author:
echo $AUTHOR

BACKGROUND=none
FILL=white

TDIR=`mktemp -d`

convert_caption () {
    OLD_IFS=$IFS
    IFS=$'\n'
    convert -font "$FONT" -background $BACKGROUND -fill $FILL -pointsize 20 "$@"
    IFS=$OLD_IFS
}

pushd $TDIR > /dev/null

convert_caption -size 20x caption:"${QUOTE}" quote.png
convert_caption -pointsize 20 -size 400 caption:"${TEXT}" text.png
convert_caption -size 400 -gravity East caption:"${AUTHOR}" author.png

convert -background $BACKGROUND quote.png text.png +append result.png
convert -background $BACKGROUND result.png author.png -append result.png

popd > /dev/null

composite $TDIR/result.png -geometry +480+0 -gravity center $WALLPAPER_ORIGNAL  $WALLPAPER_RESULT

display -window root $WALLPAPER_RESULT

rm -rf $TDIR