Windows 10 Spotlight Extractor

This application will scrape the windows spotlight assets folder for wallpapers. The folder is located at

%LOCALAPPDATA%/Packages/Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy/LocalState/Assets

Once found the wallpapers will be copied into the Spotlight images directory. By default this is:

%USERPROFILE%/OneDrive/Pictures/Spotlight

The application will filter only for images larger than 1920 x 1080

Getting Started

Set the script to run on a schedule or just call using the CLI command spotlight You should see an output similar to the following

[2019-12-26 19:37:40,819] [root] [root] - Copying Windows Spotlight Images Into C:\Users\jonat\OneDrive\Pictures\Spotlight
[2019-12-26 19:37:40,844] [root] [root] - Successfully Copied 3 files

Modify the Settings in C:\Users\jonat\AppData\Local\w10-spotlight-extractor\settings.ini

I recommend adding the following to the settings to silence the output under the LOGGING section CORRECT THE USERNAME FIRST!

file = C:\Users\jonat\AppData\Local\w10-spotlight-extractor\app.log

Installing

I Highly recommend using PIPX to install the spotlight extractor to ensure you do not run into issues with other environments and CLI apps installed using PIP
https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-stand-alone-command-line-tools/

Install the spotlight extractor with pip into a Python3 Environment.

pip3 install windows-spotlight-extractor

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome to the project, please raise issues first and contribute in response to the issue with a pull request.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Jonathan Turnock - Initial work

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details