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Get Nasa's Image of the Day, set it as a background on Windows 10 and push a notification. Special thanks to Les Pounder for the original code
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import os | |
import requests | |
import ctypes | |
from win10toast import ToastNotifier | |
url = "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=" | |
os.environ['NO_PROXY'] = 'nasa.gov' | |
r = requests.get(url) | |
toaster = ToastNotifier() | |
if r: | |
APOD = r.json()['hdurl'] | |
title = r.json()['title'] | |
detail = r.json()['explanation'] | |
pic = requests.get(APOD, allow_redirects=True) | |
if "jpg" not in APOD: | |
print("No image") | |
else: | |
open('C:\\Users\\vincent.willcox\\Pictures\\APOD.jpg', 'wb').write(pic.content) | |
ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(20, 0, "C:\\Users\\vincent.willcox\\Pictures\\APOD.jpg" , 0) | |
toaster.show_toast(title, detail, icon_path=None, duration=10, threaded=True) | |
print("DONE") | |
else: | |
print("Error") |
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