bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

Bash Script for download and set current Bing Daily Wallpaper automatically on all (or selected) monitors for macOS

How it works?

Script downloads current Bing Daily Wallpaper to ~/Pictures/bing-wallpapers/ and sets it as wallpaper on all your monitors every day.

Set wallpaper (dekstop picture) automatically every day

using npx

1. First install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/
2. Run in Terminal npx --yes bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor@latest enable-auto-update

using bing-wallpaper.sh

1. copy bing-wallpaper.sh to your computer eg. your to ~/Desktop folder
2. open Terminal app
3. run cd ~/Desktop
4. run chmod +x bing-wallpaper.sh
5. run ./bing-wallpaper.sh enable-auto-update

Note: do not remove bing-wallpaper.sh file from your computer. It is needed to download and set wallpaper every day

Tips:

• provide parameter -d <number> to set wallpaper from different day eg. 1 for yesterday
• provide parameter -c <country-code> to get country specific Bing picture of the day. Use code like en-US, cs-CZ.
• provide parameter -m <monitor number> to set wallpaper only on certain monitor
• provide --auto-update-name <name> to have multiple auto update scripts running

See all parameters providing parameter --help

Script Parameters

  enable-auto-update             Enable automatic update of wallpapers every day
                                 the picture if the filename already exists.
  disable-auto-update            Disable automatic update of wallpapers every day
                                 the picture if the filename already exists.
  info                           Show description of current wallpaper.
  --auto-update-name <name>      Name of your auto update when enabling/disabling
                                 Using custom name enables setting multiple automatic update configurations.
                                 Eg. Set on monitor 1 todays wallpaper and on monitor 2 wallpaper from yesterday                                                           
  -f --force                     Force download of picture. This will overwrite
                                 the picture if the filename already exists.
  -s --ssl                       Communicate with bing.com over SSL.
  -q --quiet                     Do not display log messages.
  -c --country <coutry-code>     Specify market country/region eg. en-US, cs-CZ
                                 Pictures may be different for markets on some days.
                                 See full list of countries on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search/dd251064(v=msdn.10)
  -d --day <number>              Day for which you want to get the picture.
                                 0 is current day, 1 is yesterday etc.
                                 Default is 0.
  -n --filename <file name>      The name of the downloaded picture. Defaults to
                                 the upstream name.
  -p --picturedir <picture dir>  The full path to the picture download dir.
                                 Will be created if it does not exist.
                                 [default: $HOME/Pictures/bing-wallpapers/]
  -r --resolution <resolution>   The resolution of the image to retrieve.
                                 Supported resolutions: ${RESOLUTIONS[*]}
  --resolutions <resolutions>    The resolutions of the image try to retrieve.
                                 eg.: --resolutions "1920x1200 1920x1080 UHD"
  -m --monitor <num>             Set wallpaper only on certain monitor (1,2,3...)
  --all-desktops-experimental    Set wallpaper on all desktops
                                 Fixing osascript bug when wallpaper is not set for Desktop 2.
                                 Known issue: Minimized apps are removed from Dock.
                                 If something goes wrong delete Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db
                                 and restart your Mac.                           
  -h --help                      Show this screen.
  --version                      Show version.

How it works?

Command ./bing-wallpaper.sh enable-auto-update creates a launch agent (plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/). Agent will run script bing-wallpaper.sh every day and automatically update your wallpapers to latest Bing picture of the day.

For More info about launchd see https://www.launchd.info/ Configuration section.

Set current Bing.com wallpaper manually

with npm

(How install use script without npm see Usage (without npm) below)

1. First install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/

2. For getting current Bing Daily Wallpaper to your desktop run in terminal:

npx bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

OR

npm -g install bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

then run in terminal

bing-wallpaper-daily-mac-multimonitor

3. For automatic setup of wallpaper every day contine with instructions below

without npm

Run ./bing-wallpaper.sh terminal for a single download of current Bing image.