Bing Image Downloader

[Haddood]

here is a command that will download Bing Image of the day .... one practical use, I put them in folder then set XBMC amber skin to various background, command can be extended using http://www.sg20.com/wallpaperchanger/ to change the desktop background

trigger it once and it will keep triggering itself at 5:00am everyday ...
You need cURL installed ... make sure to fix the path of the cURL and where you want to save the images

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<!--VoxCommando 2.1.0.7-->
<command id="302" name="Bing Image of the day" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
 <action>
   <cmdType>Scrape.XML</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=xml&amp;idx=0&amp;n=1&amp;mkt=en-US</param>
     <param>urlBase</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Results.SetVar</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>BingURL</param>
     <param>http://www.bing.com{Match.1}_1920x1080.jpg</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Results.RegEx</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>.*/(.*)</param>
     <param />
     <param>{var.BingURL}</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Launch.Capture</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>C:\Extensions\cURL\curl.exe</param>
     <param>-o "C:\Wallpaper\Bing\{Match.1}" {var.BingURL}</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>VC.SetEventTimer</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>5:00 AM</param>
     <param>Bing.ImageSave</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <event>Bing.ImageSave</event>
</command>


[nime5ter]

Fun. I like curl.

For those who don't have broad use for curl, Python is also an option. The following script can be used to download and save files from the web if you know the url:

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from System.Net import WebClient

def downloadFile(url,filename):

   #change the following to the path where you want to save your files
   path = "C:\\[yourchosendirectory]\\[filepath]"+filename
   
   WebClient().DownloadFile(url,path)

So, for this purpose, you'd could do the following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<!--VoxCommando 2.1.0.7-->
<command id="302" name="Bing Image of the day--python version" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
 <action>
   <cmdType>PY.ExecFile</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>PY\downloadFile.py</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Scrape.XML</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=xml&amp;idx=0&amp;n=1&amp;mkt=en-US</param>
     <param>urlBase</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Results.SetVar</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>BingURL</param>
     <param>http://www.bing.com{Match.1}_1920x1080.jpg</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>Results.RegEx</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>.*/(.*)</param>
     <param />
     <param>{var.BingURL}</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>PY.ExecString</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>downloadFile("{var.BingURL}","{Match.1}")</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <action>
   <cmdType>VC.SetEventTimer</cmdType>
   <params>
     <param>5:00 AM</param>
     <param>Bing.ImageSave</param>
   </params>
   <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
 </action>
 <event>Bing.ImageSave</event>
</command>

(where downloadFile.py is the above python script)

[Haddood]

nime5ter ... that did not cross my mind ... for sure because I am a PY newbee 
I would just modify the PY function to pass the path as well, and we end up with a universal PY downloader
no need for external software ...

VC rocks

[JonPeyton]

love it thanks!