scrape

Download images from wallhaven.cc

Command line app that downloads random wallpapers in a specified size from wallhaven. App scrapes the site for the link, deletes old files and downloads new ones in the images folder. That folder can be used as a source for desktop backgrounds on OSX.

installation

App uses Bundler to handle dependancies.

If Bundler is not installed:

 gem install bundler

Run in the app folder

 bundle install

configuration

In scrape.rb

START_LINK = "http://alpha.wallhaven.cc/search?categories=111&purity=100&resolutions=2560x1440&sorting=random&order=desc"
IMAGE_FOLDER = "./images/"

Starting link contains params for the wallpaper filter like categories, purity, resolutions, sorting and order. Image folder where images are store can be changed here.

run

Enter

 ./scrape.rb

automate

An alias can be created to run the app quickly

Add to .zshrc or other shell equvalent

alias scrape="(cd /Users/andrejkolar/Projects/scrape/; ./scrape.rb)"

To run, in any shell

 scrape

gems

nokogiri gem is used to scrape image URLs from wallhaven.

mechanize gem is used to download images from URLs.

open_uri_redirections gem is to fix http => https redirections.