National Geographic - Photo of the day -

wallpaper-ng.sh

#!/bin/bash

ng_json_url="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/_jcr_content/.gallery.json"
path="$HOME/Pictures/Wallpapers/"

mkdir -p $path

echo "Pinging NG API..."

# Fetching API response.
resp=$(curl -s $ng_json_url)
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
  echo "Ping failed!"
  exit 1
fi

content=$(curl -s $ng_json_url)

image_caption=$(echo $content | jq -r '.items[0].image.caption')
image_url=$(echo $content | jq -r '.items[0].image.renditions[-1].uri')
image_name=$(echo $content | jq -r '.items[0].image.title')
image_name=${image_name// /_}
image_name=${image_name,,}
image_filename=${path}${image_name}".jpg"

echo ${image_url}
echo ${image_caption}

curl -s -o ${image_filename} $image_url

echo $image_caption  > ${image_filename}".txt"

if [ "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" = "XFCE" ]
then
  xres=($(echo $(xfconf-query --channel xfce4-desktop --list | grep last-image)))
  for x in "${xres[@]}"
  do
    xfconf-query --channel xfce4-desktop --property $x --set ${image_filename}
  done
# Set the wallpaper for unity, gnome3, cinnamon.
elif gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file://${image_filename}"; then
  #Logging
  # Set the view to zoom,
  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options "zoom"
else
  echo "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP not supported."
  break
fi

echo "New wallpaper set successfully for $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP."