scripting for wallpaper providers

[Scott R]

Gerald, thank you so much for your great software Dual Monitor Tools give me features that still run on an old XP machine 10/10.

I came accross LUA api and scripting in Videolan some - script example https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154045/ Have you considered adding LUA scripting api - I have no idea if that is really difficult. I was thinking it could make adding future providers for image sources easier to construct or maybe simplify your existing provider code base (signon/auth etc). LUA could make a nice optional feature for DMT if straight forward.

I have not been able to find a site that will serve images using your "images from url" provider . Do you know any examples that work?

Any idea if there is a way to script creating a folder of images from "http://bingwallpaper.anerg.com" or http://allfree-stuff.com ? Manually is quite tedious.

[Gerald Evans]

I have thought about adding scripting support for downloading, but wanted to keep things simple for now. Thanks for the link to LUA, which I have heard about before, but have never looked into. When time permits I'll have a good look at it.

The only URL that I am aware of that can provide random images is https://source.unsplash.com/random but there must be others.

The typical solution for downloading images from sites involve writing code. I assume there are programs out there that will download all images from a site / URL, but site owners don't always like this sort of thing as it uses up their bandwidth and they loose out on the chance to show you advertisments.

Thanks for all of the comments.