Download Windows 10 Spotlight Lock screen images anywhere
Clone this git repository with git clone https://github.com/Biswa96/WinLight.
If you want to download the images in a different folder copy the script in it.
Run any one of the scripts as following:
-
Python script: Install requests module with
python -m pip install requests. Run the script with double click or usepython WinLight.py. -
Shell script: Install
wgetin your system. Fox example, in Debian and its family runapt install wget. Make the shell script executable withchmod +x WinLight.sh. Then run the script with double click or use./WinLight.shcommand in your preferred shell.
There will be some JPEG images after success. Images will be in pair of landscape and portrait mode. Run the script multiple times to gather more images.
Both script work as following:
- Download the
cache.jsonfile with some magic. - Edit it for further use.
- Download the images.
- Delete small blank files (less than 2 KB).
To see cache.json file, open it in Firefox which highlights it syntactically.
For Chromium and its derivatives, use any JSON viewer or formatter extensions.
Interested in what happens behind the scene? See Developers page.
WinLight is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. A full copy of the license is provided in LICENSE.
WinLight -- Download Windows 10 Spotlight Lock screen images anywhere
Copyright (C) 2019 Biswapriyo Nath
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