LTOTD

"Lospec Tag of the Day"

A Mac OS menu bar app that displays the "Tag of the Day" from Lospec

Current Version: 0.2.2 - initial development

Latest Changes:

• v0.2.1 Patch: fix async call in _refresh_handler()
• v0.2.2 Patch: fix bad refresh time from v0.2.1 (oops!)

Getting Started

Start the app and it will automatically fetch the Tag of the Day

The app will refresh every hour while running, but you can also click on "Refresh" in the menu to refresh manually

You'll get a notification from the app when the #tag changes

Installation

NOTE: Official release is on hold pending updates to the Lospec API, at which point I will update the app to make use of the official endpoint instead of scraping. This app should be considered only as a proof-of-concept.

TODO

Build it Yourself

In lieu of a proper release for now, you can build the app yourself!

Note

You'll need Python installed (this app was built using Python 3.12)

1. Clone this repo
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the cloned directory, LTOTD
3. Run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to install the necessary dependencies
4. Run the command python setup.py py2app to build the app

If everything worked, you'll find the app here:

{wherever you cloned the repo}/LTOTD/dist/LTOTD

Built With Python

Using...

• Beautiful Soup
• py2app
• Requests
• Rumps

Versioning

This project follows Semantic Versioning, a.k.a SEMVER

Acknowledgements

Lospec was created and is maintained by Sam Keddy, a.k.a Skeddles

• Lospec on Patreon
• Lospec on GitHub

All copyrights are property of their respective owners