Use latest pic as background from https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic

PrimitivePic_bg.30m.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# use it with https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
import os
import re
import subprocess
import tempfile
import time
import urllib2

TW_URL = 'https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic'

page = urllib2.urlopen(TW_URL).read()
first_pic = re.search('pbs.twimg.com/media.*?jpg', page)
if first_pic:
	url = first_pic.group(0)
	image = urllib2.urlopen('http://' + url).read()
	tmp_file, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp()
	os.write(tmp_file, image)
	os.close(tmp_file)
	subprocess.call("osascript -e 'tell application \"Finder\" to set desktop picture to POSIX file \"" + tmp_path + "\"'", shell=True)
	time.sleep(1)
	os.remove(tmp_path)

Was just about to write this when I figured "why not search gist?". Thanks for posting!