Comments on: Photo feed as Desktop Background

By: Gui

Gui — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Hi,
I really enjoy your script, congratulations ! On Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome 2.0, it works perfectly for chromasia and ddoi, but when I tried to add another feed like the one from APOD :

rss_feeds['ddoi'] = ‘http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/rss/ddoi‘
rss_feeds['apod'] = ‘http://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss'

it returns an error :

~/Images/DeskFeed$ ./deskfeed.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./deskfeed.py”, line 79, in
main()
File “./deskfeed.py”, line 76, in main
parseFeed(rss_feeds[key])
File “./deskfeed.py”, line 50, in parseFeed
photo_hash = element.getElementsByTagName(‘hash’)[0].firstChild.data
IndexError: list index out of range

do you understand what that means ?
Thanks !

By: Dalton

Dalton — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:58:00 +0000

How would I add this feed instead of the chromasia feed?
‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/bingimages'

By: JC

JC — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:30:00 +0000

Let me know when you fix the script for issues like md5 deprecation, Index out of range, etc. for OSX 10.6.4

By: BVE

BVE — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Could you please add this feed? it’s the astronomy picture of the day

Just add this line:
rss_feeds['apod'] = ‘http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml'

below this line:
rss_feeds['ddoi'] = ‘http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/rss/ddoi'

using a good text editor and save the script.

By: drew

drew — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:08:00 +0000

Ok, stupid question, but should this be able to handle an atom feed?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:00 +0000

Could you please add this feed? it’s the astronomy picture of the day.

http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml

By: ahimsauzi

ahimsauzi — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:10:00 +0000

I love your script thank you very much for sharing it. I installed it on Leopard screensaver and it works great! One question: as the feed refreshes would I have more images in the folder or some will be overridden? A great feature will be to choose weather to keep all images or just the current feed.

Thanks again!

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:52:00 +0000

:cries:

I want it for Windoze.

By: Constantinos

Constantinos — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:25:00 +0000

You would have to edit the file /etc/crontab and remove the last entry corresponding to the deskfeed.py file. In the terminal, ( > is the terminal prompt) type the following:

&gt; vi /etc/crontab

Then press the down arrow until you’re over the line you wish to delete, press the letter “d” twice, then type this:

:wq

(that’s a colon, followed by “w” and then “q“, and hit return), which will write the file and quit the editor.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:24:00 +0000

The python script seems to be working great (OSX 10.4.11). I like how Chromasia’s photos are labeled. This will become more valuable when a number of feeds are in the mix.

After I add the script to a cronjob, how do I remove it?