I'm a beginner at Github and a semi-beginner at python so bare with me. Any comments are welcome.
Do you want a quick and easy way to read the wikipedia article each day? Required python libraries: datetime qrcode PIL PIL Image
This short script works as follows: It uses datetime to get today's date. This date is inserted into the wikipedia URL The qrcode then generates a QRcode for that URL and the code is saved as a PNG.
The QRcode's properties (size etc) is modifable. See comments in daily-wiki.py
There are bash shell scripts included. They work in the linux terminal and will run the python script without having to type "python3 daily-wiki.py".
The bash scripts:
Dependancies / install-dependancies.sh: The following dependancies are required: Python3 or newer The following libraries: qrcode datetime PIL Image from PIL You can automatically install all the dependancies by running install-dependancies.sh. It will install/verify the above libraries and python3 install.
start-program.sh This script is best used when you don't need to view the QRcode after creation. Some examples: You make a bot to tweet out the code each day; You are going to display it on a Raspberry piHAT screen; You are going to schedule the script to run once a day. Imageviewing scripts: PiOS-start-program.sh This script is for Raspberry Pis running PiOS or Raspbian, maybe NOOBS. It will launch the default imageviewer on PiOS, GPicView. start-program-xviewer This script is to launch xviewer, my default image viewer program right after creation. You can always modify the code to have it launch your favorite or needed program.