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An Automator workflow to download wallpapers
Authored by: harperska on Oct 30, '07 05:32:12PM
Some RSS feeds like an Astronomy Picture of the Day feed I found actually include the pictures in the feed itself. For these, Leopard's automator has an action called "Get image urls from articles", which extracts - you guessed it - the image urls directly from the RSS feed. So if your feed indeed does display the images, the automator workflow becomes the following:
[Text] Get Specified Text {feed://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml}
    V
[Internet] Get Image URLs from Articles
    V
[Internet] Download URLs {where: ~/Pictures/Desktop Pictures}
Of course with the cleanup and backup actions mentioned in the OP before the download actions. This variant avoids the shell hackery and is much cleaner.

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