Earth photos downloader
Project description
Python script downloading Earth photos taken by Himawari-8 satelite. Website: http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/
Inspired by this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/441do9/i_made_a_windows_powershell_script_that_puts_a/
Especially by european_impostor’s Powershell script: https://gist.github.com/MichaelPote/92fa6e65eacf26219022
And most of all, its Python implementations: by celoyd: https://gist.github.com/celoyd/39c53f824daef7d363db and by willwhitney: https://gist.github.com/willwhitney/e9e2c42885385c51843e
This script is Windows specific. Python 3.4+ only compatible. Tested on Windows 7, Python 3.4.4 and Python 3.5.1
Installation
To install, download source or clone it with git
git clone https://github.com/pywkm/earthpic.git
Change to eartpic/ directory and run setup.py
cd earthpic/ python setup.py install
This should install all dependencies (Pillow, requests, pytz and click). If you have problem with installing Pillow package during python setup.py install and/or with pip install pillow, you can download wheel file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and install it with command pip install <path/to/whl_file>.
Usage
Call earthpic –help from command line to view this help:
- usage: earthpic [-h] [-d DATE] [-t TIME] [-s SCALE] [-w] [-v] [-l N_PHOTOS]
[-b] [-p PATH]
Download satelite Earth photo(s)
- optional arguments:
- -h, --help
show this help message and exit
- -d DATE, --date DATE
date of the photo [format: YYYY-MM-DD] (default: 2016-02-09)
- -t TIME, --time TIME
time of the photo [fotmat: hh:mm] (default: 00:05)
- -s SCALE, --scale SCALE
scale of the photo, choices: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 20 (default: 2)
- -w, --wallpaper
set downloaded image as desktop wallpaper (default: False)
- -v, --verbose
increase output verbosity (default: False)
- -l N_PHOTOS, --last N_PHOTOS
process N photos to given date (default: 1)
- -b, --batch
run batch downloading photos. To stop, press ctrl+c. (default: False)
- -p PATH, --path PATH
path where images will be saved (default: images)
So, for instance calling just earthpic without arguments will download latest satelite photo (current time minus ~20 minutes - delay of original service) and save it to ./images/ directory, without setting it as desktop wallpaper.
To specify date and time of picture write: earthpic -d 2016-02-01 -t 02:50. All dates/times are considered as in UTC timezone.
To set downloaded picture as wallpaper, write: earthpic -w -d 2016-02-01 -t 02:50.
To change scale (size, quality of wallpaper): earthpic -w -s 4 -d 2016-02-01 -t 02:50.
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