Download the top 15 images from an imgur subreddit

imgurDownloader.py

#! /usr/bin/python
import json
import requests
import os

dest='/home/eric/Pictures/wallpaper/'
subreddit='wallpaper'
baseurl = 'http://imgur.com'
r = requests.get(baseurl + '/r/%s/top.json' % subreddit)
j = json.loads(r.text)
urls = ["%s/%s%s" % (baseurl, img['hash'], img['ext']) for img in j['data'][:15]]

for the_file in os.listdir(dest):
    file_path = os.path.join(dest, the_file)
    try:
        if os.path.isfile(file_path):
            os.unlink(file_path)
    except Exception as e:
        print e
        
for url in urls:
    r=requests.get(url)
    with open(dest + url.split('/')[-1], 'wb') as f:
        f.write(r.content)