Himawari-8 Wallpaper Bot: Fresh images of the whole Earth from space, every 10 minutes

himawari-8.py

import urllib
import datetime as dt
import pytz
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
import subprocess
import socket
import os

dir = '/FULL/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/DIR'

def download_latest_image():
    tz=pytz.timezone('Atlantic/Cape_Verde')
    #hires = "http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/images/hi_res/himawari-8/full_disk_ahi_true_color/full_disk_ahi_true_color_"
    lores = "http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/images/himawari-8/full_disk_ahi_true_color/full_disk_ahi_true_color_"
    timestamp = dt.datetime.now(tz).strftime("%Y%m%d%H")
    mins = int(dt.datetime.now(tz).strftime("%M")[:1])
    #todo: fix timestamp bug
    if mins != 0:
        mins = mins - 1
    timestamp = timestamp + str(mins) + '000'
    filetype = ".jpg"
    img_url = lores + timestamp + filetype
    #img_url = hires + timestamp + filetype
    img_loc = dir + '/img/' + timestamp + filetype
    urllib.urlretrieve(img_url, img_loc, reporthook=report)
    size = 1000, 1000
    im = Image.open(dir + '/img/' + timestamp + filetype).convert('RGB')
    im = im.resize(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
    logo_dims = (180, 80)
    logo_box = (0, size[0] - logo_dims[1], logo_dims[0], size[1])
    logo = np.array(im.crop(logo_box))
    logo[..., ...][...] = (0, 0, 0)
    logo_edited = Image.fromarray(logo)
    im.paste(logo_edited, logo_box)
    border = (1000, 200)
    new_size = (size[0] + border[0], size[0] + border[1])
    new_im = Image.new('RGB', new_size)
    paste_pos = (border[0]/2, border[1]/2, new_size[0] - (border[0]/2), new_size[1] - (border[1]/2))
    new_im.paste(im, paste_pos)
    new_im_name = timestamp + filetype
    new_im.save(dir + '/img/' + new_im_name)
    cmd = 'sh ' + dir + '/set_desktop.sh ' + dir + '/img/' + new_im_name
    subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)
    for file in os.listdir(dir + '/img/'):
        if file != timestamp + filetype:
            os.remove(dir + '/img/' + file)

def report(count, blockSize, totalSize):
    percent = int(count * blockSize * 100 / totalSize)
    print("\r%d%%" % percent + ' complete')

def is_connected():
  try:
    host = socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')
    s = socket.create_connection((host, 80), 2)
    return True
  except:
     pass
  return False

if is_connected():
    download_latest_image()

set_desktop.sh

#!/bin/bash

sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db "update data set value = '$1'" && killall Dock

I made this work on Linux Mint (Cinnamon) by changing just this line

    cmd = 'gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///' + dir + '/img/' + new_im_name+'"'