Zoom Rotate

A helpful way to take the pressure off choosing what zoom background you have.

Introduction

Have you ever spent 10 minutes a day every day for about 6 months manually curating which pretty background you wanted for that day in your zoom?

"There's gotta be a better way!"

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python
• Pipenv
• A Pixabay API Key

Install

Run make install to install the pip requisites.

You can run pipenv run ./main.py --help to verify that the install worked correctly.

Configuration

To start, copy the config.ini.example file to config.ini in the directory and update the API_QUERY param to whatever search string you'd like. (I like autumn)

Obtaining a Pixabay API Key

The easiest way to get the pixabay API key is to sign up for Pixabay, and navigate to this page. You will either see key (required) str Please login to see your API key here. Login | Signup if you're not logged in, or Your API key: 12345678-abcdef0123456789abcdef012 (but with your key) if you are.

Once you've obtained your key, add the key to the PIXABAY_API_KEY in the config.ini file

Setting up Zoom

You will need to have added at least one image as a custom background to your zoom application that you're willing to have be erased as the "rotating" zoom image.

Once you've added your image (feel free to use the jpeg in the assets/ directory if you don't have one at hand), you'll need to navigate to where the custom images are stored.

• For macbooks, this is usually /Users/USER_NAME/Library/Application Support/zoom.us/data/VirtualBkgnd_Custom
• For windows, this is usually C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Zoom\data\VirtualBkgnd_Custom
• For linux, this is usually, /home/USER_NAME/.zoom/data/VirtualBkgnd_Custom

If you've added more than one custom image, you may want to open them each in either like Firefox or an image previewer that handles extensionless files to find the one you're looking for. Once you have that, add the full path to your file in the style of /path/to/VirtualBkgnd_Custom/BB74FD98-2E23-4E79-B01E-EDCB8D68253D to the parameter ZOOM_IMAGE

Setting up the database

In your config.ini file update the BASE_DIR param with the full path to the current working directory (the root of the repo).

Additionally, update the DB_LOCATION param with the same path you used in the BASE_DIR but append the file db.sqlite to the path. (eg. if your base dir is /home/USER_NAME/.local/zoom-rotate/ your db location would be /home/USER_NAME/.local/zoom-rotate/db.sqlite)

Running the tool

Downloading images

You should be able to run make get and an images folder should appear in your repo and images should start to download that match your search query.

Approving/Rejecting images

If you want to just move good images over to an approved folder, you can, but if you go through the application, it'll store the ones you've approved in the db as well and not redownload them.

To approve:

• For each image 0123456.jpg, 1234567.jpg that you want to approve
  • Run pipenv run ./main.py approve 0123456,1234567
• If you only want to approve a single image
  • Run pipenv run ./main.py approve 0123456, (the ending comma is for being able to type it correctly from the Fire library.)

To reject:

• For each image 0123456.jpg, 1234567.jpg that you want to reject
  • Run pipenv run ./main.py reject 0123456,1234567
  • Similar caveats for single image rejections apply from the approvals.

Rejected images are deleted but retain a record in the db so if they get pulled in the search query they won't be downloaded.

Rotating Images

If you'd like to rotate using some other method, you can look at the examples directory, but otherwise you can run:

pipenv run ./main.py rotate

if you are going to make an alias for this to run from anywhere you'll want to run it in the style of:

/path/to/virtualenv/python /path/to/repo/main.py rotate --config_file /path/to/repo/config.ini