Flippr! is a simple application that grabs pictures from Flickr! (The supercool photo-sharing website) and throws them on your desktop.
It’s easy to tell Flippr! what ‘kind’ of pictures you’re looking for (tags).
For a nice waterfall on that desktop, simply run ‘Flippr waterfall‘.
If your hungry, try ‘Flippr peterluger‘ or perhaps ‘Flippr pasta‘.
If your… You got the point 
Download the program Here
Notes:
- The program comes with several batch files that simply run Flippr! with different tags.
- You can easily automate the process of switching wallpapers using Window’s Task-Scheduler, which is located at Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks.
- At some times it can take up to a minute or two to fetch the picture (remember you’re sometimes downloading hi-res JPGs)
So what’s the recipe?
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Python, gosh I’m learning to love Python
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FlickrClient – Flickr! API wrapper for Python (XML-RPC)
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PIL – Python Imaging Library
- CTypes – Another Python Library
Very cool, always fresh and automation – I like it!
Probably a stupid question, forgive my lack of knowledge in command line syntax. Can we specify multiple tags using either AND OR logic operators?
get some nice Wallpapers from there.
Apparently this won’t work if you’re going through a proxy…? Any way to fix that?
hey, great idea
unfortunately it doesn’t work on my com. it says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “flippr.py”, line 117, in ?
File “flippr.py”, line 77, in getPhotoByTag
IndexError: list index out of range
any idea why?
nice piece of software
Has anyone been able to use this through a proxy? – if so how
not via proxy, didnt worked
Proxy supported?
Nice website mate