So, I woke up this morning and I looked at my Mac's wallpaper thinking that it's been there for a while and I needed to change it... Therefore I headed over to Unsplash... Where I spent over 30 minutes just looking for a wallpaper. Needless to tell you that I didn't find any that suit me. I decided to code a simple script that would go there, and pick a randmon wallpaper for me and set it on my desktop. Now this script runs anytime I start my laptop and I start my day with a new, fresh wallpaper 😌.

This is a simple script that allows you to change your wallpaper from the terminal using bash & osascript thanks to the amazing pictures gotten from the Unsplash API.

Click here to get an Unsplash API key

Once you have your API key, head over to the key.sh file in order to add it and you can now call the script to change your Wallpaper. sh change_wallpaper

In the script change_wallpaper.sh, here is the syntax of the change_wallpaper function:

change_wallpaper <theme> <size>

<theme> is used as the query parameter (if you want images of planes, nature, etc...).

<size> is the different sizes allowed by the unsplash API:

• raw -> full size images (~18 Mb)
• full -> full size (~5 Mb)
• regular -> medium size (~1 Mb)
• small -> small size (~300 Kb)
• thumb -> thumbnail (~100 Kb)

Feel free to fork it and edit as you wish. Come talk to me on Twitter @boulama_k