desklickrb

Japanese document is here http://blog.bylo.jp/develop/2014/05/744/.

This ruby gem refreshes Mac's Desktop Picture using Flickr's picture.
The name desklickrb is named by hommage to Desklickr that is similar app. An executable file deslickrb in bin directory.

Environment

This script was tested on:

• MacOS Marverics
• Ruby 2.0.0

Installation

gem install desklickrb

Preparing the Flickr API key

Flickr API Key must be created at https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/.
Then the API Key should be specified with -k option to executable desklickrb.

Usage

You can see the help with desklickrb -h as the followings.

desklickrb [-v] [-k flickr-api-key] [-o filename] [gallery options]

  -v: verbose
  -k: API key created on https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/
  -u: download picture of user-id
  -o: download picture to filename (default: /tmp/desklickrb.jpg)

  gallery options:
     -u user-id: gallery of user-id
     -t tag: gallery by tag
     default is choosing from interestingness.

Try deslickrb -k "Flickr API Key", then you see a new desktop picture.