apod-wallpaper

Utilizes NASA APOD API to generate wallpapers with explanations. - Will download images (single, random or all in date range) - Only supports image media types (no video). - Uses tkinter to attempt to size wallpaper if not specified. - By default, adds explanation of daily images in watermarked footer.

Install

pip install apod-wallpaper

For issues installing PIL dependency: - Install libjpeg-dev & freetype-dev with your package manager (apt, yum, brew, etc)

pip install PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL

Configuration

Get your NASA API key

Set NASA_API_KEY environment variable to your key.

Usage

Download single date

from apod_wallpaper import apod
from datetime import date

apod.download_single(single_date=date(2015, 07, 01))

Download random

Defaults to start_date=date(1995, 6, 20) (the first day NASA began posting daily pics), and end_date=date.today()

from apod_wallpaper import apod

apod.download_random()

Download bulk

Select range of APOD (good for catching up on recent misses)

from apod_wallpaper import apod
from datetime import date

apod.download_bulk(start_date=date(2015, 07, 01), end_date=date(2015, 07, 05))

All NASA APOD images (BE NICE: you probably don’t need this)

from apod_wallpaper import apod

apod.download_bulk()

Optional arguments

download_path: (optional) File location to store downloaded image (default ~/wallpapers).
overwrite: (optional) Overwrite existing files in download_path (default: False)
screen_width: (optional) Pixels of width to make image. Large than original will add a black background. If not specified, OS detection of screen width will be attempted.
screen_height: (optional) Pixels of height to make image. Large than original will add a black background. If not specified, OS detection of screen width will be attempted.
font: (optional) TrueType font to apply in image footer (default OpenSans-Regular.ttf).
font_size: (optional) Size of TrueType font in image footer (default 18).
margin: (optional) Pixels around image footer text (default 50).
font_color: (optional) RGBA tuple for color of font (default white).
background_color: (optional) RBGA tuple for color of background (default black).
opacity: (optional) Opacity for image footer (default 0.8).