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Grab a random wallpaper from wallbase.net

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  1. import re
  2. import mechanize
  3. from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  4. from array import array
  5. import random
  6. import ctypes
  7.  
  8.  
  9. # setup
  10. br = mechanize.Browser()
  11. links = []
  12. random.seed()
  13. br.set_handle_robots(False)
  14. 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')]
  15.  
  16. # grab the index page
  17. br.open("http://wallbase.net/random")
  18.  
  19. # get a list of links
  20. for link in br.links(url_regex="wallbase.net/wallpaper/"):
  21. 	links.append(link.url)
  22.  
  23. # grab a random link, also convert list item to string
  24. rndurl = str(random.sample(links, 1)).strip('[]\'')
  25. response = br.open(rndurl)
  26. soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
  27. imgurl = soup.find("div", { "id" : "bigwall" }).findNext('img')['src']
  28.  
  29. response2 = br.open(imgurl)
  30.  
  31. # save wallpaper
  32. file = open("wallpaper.jpg","wb")
  33. file.write(response2.get_data())
  34. file.close()
  35.  
  36. # set wallpaper
  37. SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20
  38. MY_WALLPAPER = "wallpaper.jpg"
  39. ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, MY_WALLPAPER , 0)

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