How to: Set NASA astronomy picture of the day (APOD) as wallpaper

[Bill Stewart]

First, create a directory at the root of your device called apod.

Task:

Task name: Set APOD
    A1: Variable Set [ Name:%apod_path To:apod/apod.jpg Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
    A2: HTTP Get [ Server:Port:https://apod.nasa.gov/ Timeout:10 Mime Type:text/html Trust Any Certificate:Off ]
    A3: Variable Set [ Name:%httpd To:%HTTPD Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
    A4: Variable Clear [ Name:%HTTPD Pattern Matching:Off Local Variables Only:Off ]
    A5: Variable Search Replace [ Variable:%httpd Search:\<img src="([^"]+)" Ignore Case:On Multi-Line:Off One Match Only:On Store Matches In:%imagesource Replace Matches:Off ]
    A6: Variable Search Replace [ Variable:%imagesource1 Search:"([^"]+)" Ignore Case:Off Multi-Line:Off One Match Only:On Store Matches In:%imagename Replace Matches:Off ]
    A7: Variable Search Replace [ Variable:%imagename1 Search:" Ignore Case:Off Multi-Line:Off One Match Only:Off Replace Matches:On Replace With: ]
    A8: HTTP Get [ Server:Port:https://apod.nasa.gov/%imagename1 Timeout:10 Mime Type:image/jpeg Output File:%apod_path Trust Any Certificate:Off ]
    A9: Set Wallpaper [ Type:All Image:%apod_path Scale:On Crop:Off ]

First HTTP Get action - retrieve the content of the page so the task can find the path of the file.

First Variable Search Replace action - get the first string containing <img src="..." in the page. Variable %imagesource1 will contain this part of the HTML tag.

Second Variable Search Replace action - get only the string enclosed in quotes (will be in variable %imagename1).

Third Variable Search Replace action - remove the quotes from the filename - search for " and Replace With is empty - now %imagename1 contains the path of the file without quotes.

Second HTTP Get action - get the image as text/jpeg and save as a file.

Bill

[Jay M]

theres a project for this in the wiki IIRC

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[ktmom]

This is an out of date way to achieve this goal. APOD had an API to grab images and data. It's preferrable to go through the API.

[Bill Stewart]

Feel free to post your solution.

[ktmom]

Not my solution. I just use the AutoApps project http://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?resources/apod-wallpaper.148/