🌆 Wallheaven - Random wallpaper fetcher for wallhaven.cc
Wallheaven is a CLI tool for fetching random wallpapers from wallhaven.cc. Wallheaven will randomly choose a wallpaper from various lists including your own collections using your API key. The selected wallpaper will then be downloaded and will output the file path. Alternatively if a script is provided then the script will be called with the file path. more info
All queries and selected wallpapers are cached to cut down on API calls.
New Chrome extension for wallhaven.cc
You can now select a wallpaper straight from the wallhaven.cc website using the chrome extension on the chrome web store. Run the wallheavend daemon on Linux/Mac or wallheavend.exe on Windows and a new button will appear on the wallpaper thumbnails and an extra button on the wallpaper info page.
Wallpaper thumbnail link when hovering over thumbnails
Sidebar link shown on wallpaper info page
Installation
Cargo
cargo install wallheaven
Arch (AUR)
yay -S wallheaven
Download and install/build from the latest release
Usage on Windows
Setting the wallpaper on Windows currently requires some scripts to be installed. Save setwallpaper.ps1 and setwallpaper.bat from here somewhere on your computer that is in your system PATH. Then make sure your config file includes post_script="setwallpaper.bat". Now wallheaven and the wallheaven daemon can set the wallpaper directly.
Configuration
Configuration is stored in $HOME/.config/wallheaven/config.toml on linux/mac or %appdata%/Roaming/wallheaven/config.toml on Windows. Wallheaven's defaults will be overwritten by these options, which in turn will be overwritten by any environment variables set proceeded with WALLHEAVEN_. These can then be overridden with any command line flags.
An example config.toml is in this here
Usage
Call the wallheaven command and select an option to retrieve a random wallpaper.
wallheaven -c collection_name will select a wallpaper from your collection with that name. Include your username and API key in the config/flags.
wallheaven -r search_term will return wallpapers from that query.
wallheaven -t to get a random wallpaper from the toplist. Pass a range option to search time range --range 1w will search the toplist for the past week.
wallheaven --hot will get wallpapers from the hottest wallpapers list.
Command line flags
--config [path]
Path to config file to use if not using default config path
--username [username]
wallhaven.cc username. Required to fetch from your collections
--apikey [apikey]
wallhaven.cc apikey to fetch NSFW images
-c --collection [name]
Name of collection to fetch random wallpaper from. Requires API key and username to be set
-r --random
Search query to select random wallpaper from
-t --toplist
Select a random image wallpaper from the most popular wallpapers in a time range
--range [1d, 3d, 1w, 1M, 3M, 6M, 1y] - Default 1M
The time range to select toplist wallpaper from. Default to 1M
--hot
Choose a random wallpaper from the most popular wallpapers right now!
-i --id [wallhaven id]
Sets wallpaper using the wallhaven.cc wallpaper ID
-p --purity [100,001,101 etc] - Default 110
Bits representing (sfw/sketchy/nsfw). Turn purities on(1) or off(0). NSFW requires a valid API key. Example: -p 100 will only return SFW images.
--categories [100,001,101 etc] - Default 111
Bits representing categories to search from (general/anime/people). Turn categories on(1) or off (0). Example: --categories 101 will not show anime images
--pages [1 - 10] - Default 3
Amount of pages to search for random toplist/hot image. Higher number = more API calls so slower.
-e --expiry [number] - Default 600
Time in seconds to use cached search results. After this time the API will be searched for new wallpapers.
-s --script [path]
Path to external script to call with path to downloaded image. Use to set desktop wallpaper.
-f --file
Returns the current file path of the last wallpaper set with wallhwaven
-u --url
Return the wallhaven.cc link to the last wallpaper set with wallheaven
-l --last
Returns the last query made with --random
-d --delete
Deletes cache files
-h --help
Help file
-V --version
Version info
Setting wallpaper with external script
The wallheaven app only spits out the location of the selected wallpaper on your drive (the cache folder). To set the wallpaper you will need to pass it to whichever program you are using to set wallpaper on your OS. This can either be done by setting the post_script option in config.toml to the script you wish to set the wallpaper (post_script="swww img") or you can set the -s --script flag (wallheaven -t -s "swww img")
You can also just pipe the output directly into a script.
wallheaven -t | swww img for example. Or if it does not allow piping feh --bg-fill $(wallhaven -t)
An example script to set the wallpaper on both Linux and Mac can be found here
A script to set the wallpaper on Windows via the terminal can be found in the examples folder