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at November 7, 2010 22:39 by Keef
Initial Code 
import re
import mechanize
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from array import array
import random
import ctypes


# setup
br = mechanize.Browser()
links = []
random.seed()
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]

# grab the index page
br.open("http://wallbase.net/random")

# get a list of links
for link in br.links(url_regex="wallbase.net/wallpaper/"):
	links.append(link.url)

# grab a random link, also convert list item to string
rndurl = str(random.sample(links, 1)).strip('[]\'')
response = br.open(rndurl)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
imgurl = soup.find("div", { "id" : "bigwall" }).findNext('img')['src']

response2 = br.open(imgurl)

# save wallpaper
file = open("wallpaper.jpg","wb")
file.write(response2.get_data())
file.close()

# set wallpaper
SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20
MY_WALLPAPER = "wallpaper.jpg"
ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, MY_WALLPAPER , 0)
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This has been made for Windows but shouldn't be hard to convert for other OS's.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Grab a random wallpaper from wallbase.net

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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windows

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Python