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Download all macOS Sonoma Aerial wallpaper
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| #!/bin/zsh | |
| # This script helps those who want to | |
| # get all Aerial wallpapers on macOS Sonoma | |
| # all at once instead of clicking on settings one by one. | |
| # Dependencies: jq, parallel | |
| # Install all dependencies via `brew install jq parallel` | |
| # After `parallel` installed run `sudo parallel --citation` first to read citation notice (IMPORTANT) | |
| # The follwing script SHOULD be run under root user (IMPORTANT) | |
| cd "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer" && \ | |
| cat entries.json | \ | |
| jq -r '.assets[] | (.id + "," + .["url-4K-SDR-240FPS"])' | \ | |
| parallel \ | |
| wget \ | |
| --no-check-certificate -q \ | |
| -O './4KSDR240FPS/{= s:\,[^,]+$::; =}.mov' \ | |
| '{= s:[^,]+\,::; =}'; |
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| cd "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer" && cat entries.json | jq -r '.assets[] | (.id + "," + .["url-4K-SDR-240FPS"])' | parallel wget --no-check-certificate -q -O './4KSDR240FPS/{= s:\,[^,]+$::; =}.mov' '{= s:[^,]+\,::; =}'; |
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I get this error trying to runt he first cd command:
cat: entries.json: No such file or directory
Running Tahoe 26.1
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I've verified this script works across all the versions of macOS that support live wallpaper, even the newest macOS Tahoe, just launched today. FYI, it takes a lot of time downloading those large video files, so be patient.