Wallpaper downloader for various websites
Home Page: https://crates.io/crates/wallpaper-dl
License: European Union Public License 1.2
Wallpaper downloader for various websites
Note: Alphacoder's Abyss websites tend to block the downloader, so it does not work all the time.
Downloading wallpapers:
wallpaper-dl <URLs>Want to add a feature, enhance website support or report a bug? Just open a new issue on GitHub!
I honestly think it's better to just make it a standalone downloader and remove all of the manager aspects. Sure, they're nice, but how often do you change wallpapers that you need a manager built-in? Even for rotating wallpapers, it's better to stick to Unix philosophy and have a separate wallpaper setter. I might actually make one, either in Rust or Zig.
Out of all websites as of time of writing only the Alphacoders websites block the downloader almost every time. I know that the User-Agent is often the giving factor. The reason why it sets a User-Agent here is because some websites (e.g. Wallhaven) outright refuse to connect/respond normally with agent-less clients.
When trying to download an image from Wallaper Abyss, I get this error message:
wallpaper-dl https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1362746
Fetching https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1362746 FAILED HTTP status client error (403 Forbidden) for url (https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1362746)
Looking at the response using cURL, there is obviously a block from Cloudflare's side:
curl --head https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1362746 -A "wallpaper-dl/0.2.0"
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:55:45 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: [REDACTED]
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
CF-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
Set-Cookie: [REDACTED]
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: [REDACTED]
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
It also does not matter here if the user agent is set to wallpaper-dl's or none at all, since it's not from a normal browser. But watch what happens when I give it my browser's user agent:
curl --head https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=1362746 -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:59:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: [REDACTED]
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
CF-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
Set-Cookie: [REDACTED]
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: [REDACTED]
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
I think the config just needs a little field where we can put a custom User-Agent to bypass this anti-bot detection. Does not work all the time apparently, but it might be useful even as a temporary fix for someone.
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