I made a script to batch add multiple images to Wallpaper Engine at once

[p-laranjinha]

I was having trouble using the regular method of manually creating a scene to add custom images into Wallpaper Engine and ended up figuring out that using my video backend's capability to display images, I could very easily add images without even touching the Wallpaper Engine editor.

So I went ahead and made a small script to add all my images at once and figured I might as well share it.

Link to the GitHub gist

image-to-wallpaper-engine.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Only works with a video backend that supports images (like mpv)
# Finds all .png and .jpg files in this directory recursively
#		(inside every subdirectory of every subdirectory)
#		and creates wallpaper engine wallpapers into the ./myprojects directory
# The contents of the myprojects directory can then be moved into
# 		Steam/steamapps/common/wallpaper_engine/projects/myprojects/
find . -type f \( -name "*.png" -o -name "*.jpg" \) -a -not -wholename "./myprojects/*" | while read imagePath; do
    imageFileName=$(echo "$imagePath" | sed 's/.*\///g')
    imageName=$(echo "$imageFileName" | sed 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/g')
    mkdir -p "./myprojects/$imageName"
    cp "${imagePath}" "./myprojects/$imageName"
    cat >"./myprojects/$imageName/project.json" <<EOL
{
	"title" : "$imageName",
	"file" : "$imageFileName",
	"preview" : "$imageFileName",
	"description" : "Regular image wallpaper.",
	"type" : "Video",
	"contentrating" : "Everyone",
	"general" : 
	{
		"properties" : 
		{
			"schemecolor" : 
			{
				"order" : 0,
				"text" : "ui_browse_properties_scheme_color",
				"type" : "color",
				"value" : "0 0 0"
			}
		}
	}
}
EOL
done