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Title       : 	Wallbase.cc commandline bash wget downloader
Author      : 	Remy van Elst
Date        : 	22-07-2012
URL         : 	https://raymii.org/s/software/Wallbase.cc_Command_line_script.html
Format      : 	Markdown/HTML
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I mostly get my wallpapers from the website [Wallbase.cc][1]. But the site
requires a lot of javascript and ajax, and it is hard to get a lot of wallpapers
at once. I've written a script for this problem, it lets you grep wallbase from
the cli!

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##### Features

  * Bash, wget, awk only, nothing else required (well, active internet connection)
  * Get the newest wallpapers from wallbase.cc
  * Search for a term and get all the wallpapers from the first page at wallbase.cc
  * Get random wallpapers
  * Duplicate check, removes duplicate wallpapers (filesize && md5sum)

##### Usage

Very simple, first copy and paste the script into a file (wall.sh) and chmod
that so that you can execute it. chmod +x ./wall.sh ./wall.sh r for random
./wall.sh n for newest ./wall.sh s TERM for search TERM.

So to download forest wallpapers: ./wall.sh s forest

If you want to get a lot of random wallpapers then execute this: while true; do
./wall.sh r; sleep 1; done and kill that afet 10 minutes...

##### The Script

    
    
    #!/bin/bash
    #Copyright (c) 2012 Remy van Elst
    #Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
    #of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
    #in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
    #to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
    #copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
    #furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
    #
    #The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
    #all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
    #
    #THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
    #IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
    #FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
    #AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
    #LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
    #OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
    #THE SOFTWARE.
    #first the vars
    BASEURL="http://wallbase.cc/search/"
    MODE="$1"
    SEARCH="$2"
    NEWWALLURL="http://wallbase.cc/search/0/0/213/eqeq/0x0/0/1/1/0/60/relevance/desc/wallpapers"
    WALLR="http://wallbase.cc/random/"
    CONFIGS="/0/213/eqeq/0x0/0/1/1/0/60/relevance/desc/wallpapers"
    
    #now see what we need to do
    case "$1" in
       s)
       if [ -e $2 ]; then
          echo "I need search terms"
          exit 1
       fi
       GETURL="$BASEURL$SEARCH$CONFIGS"
       ;;
       n)
       GETURL="$NEWWALLURL"
       ;;
       r)
       GETURL="$WALLR"
       ;;
       *)
       echo -e "Usage:n$0 r for randomn$0 n for newestn$0 s TERM for search TERM."
       exit 1
       ;;
    esac
    
    GETURL=$WALLR
    #get the wallpaper overview page, grep the wallpaper page urls and dump them into a file for wget
    wget -q --referer="http://www.google.com" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120403211507 Firefox/12.0" $GETURL -O- | egrep -o "http://[^[:space:]]*" | grep "/wallpaper/" | sed 's/"//g' > ./wallist
    
    #put the url file in a variable, but first backup IFS and later restore it.
    OLDIFS=$IFS
    IFS='
    '
    urlsa=( $( < ./wallist ) )
    IFS=$OLDIFS
    
    #now loop trough the urls and wget the page, then grep the wallpaper URL, and then wget the wallpaper
    for i in "${urlsa[@]}"
    do
      echo $i
      wget -vv --referer="http://www.google.com" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120403211507 Firefox/12.0" $i -O- | wget -vv -nd -nc `egrep -o "http://[^[:space:]]*.jpg"`
    done
    
    #now a duplicate check...
    find -not -empty -type f -printf "%sn" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 | cut -d" " -f3 | xargs -P 10 -r -n 1 rm
    

##### Notes

If you have any tips, questions or comments, please use the form below.  
**Don't go and hammer the wallbase.cc servers, use this script responsibly**

   [1]: http://wallbase.cc
   [2]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212

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