APOD Downloader

Download the Astronomy Picture of the Day every day, keeping only the most recent 100 images. For use in a screensaver and wallpaper folder.

Setup

pylint is configured to run spell checking in addition to linting. This requires setting up enchant.

Install enchant and pyenv (on MacOS):

brew install enchant pyenv

Follow instructions for setting up pyenv shell. You need to open a new shell after your .bash_profile (or whatever) changes.

Note: For Silicon Macs: include export PYENCHANT_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib/libenchant-2.2.dylib in your .bash_profile (or whatever) file to make sure that pylint works properly. Without it you would encounter a pylint error: argument --spelling-dict: invalid choice: 'en_US' (choose from '').

Setup python:

pyenv install 3.12

Setup pipenv:

pip install --user pipenv

Note: If you have PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV then you will want to set this to false for this install to be outside of virtual environments.

Update your PATH to include ~/.local/bin as per documentation.

Sync dependencies:

pipenv sync --dev