labs.boramalper.org/himawaripy

an example image

what is it?

himawaripy is a Python 3 script that fetches near-realtime (10 minutes delayed) picture of Earth as its taken by Himawari 8 and sets it as your desktop background.

Available on GitHub.

acknowledgements

Thanks to

MichaelPote for the initial implementation using Powershell Script.
Thanks to Charlie Loyd for image processing logic (hi8-fetch.py).
Thanks to the Japan Meteorological Agency for opening these pictures to public.