I upload a lot of images when testing for various things. And of course, I don’t want to use any of my own images. So what would I do instead?
Kittens!
$ get-kitten
Downloading a 640 x 480 kitten
Downloading to kitten-1.jpg
$ open kitten-1.jpg
Perfect.
Basically, wrap a curl to https://placekitten.com/ with some code to not overwrite the poor kittens and to be able to specify the sizes:
#!/bin/bash
width=${1:-640}
height=${2:-$(dc -e "$width 4 / 3 * p")}
echo "Downloading a $width x $height kitten"
i=1
while true
do
filename="kitten-$i.jpg"
if [ -f $filename ]; then
echo "$filename already exists"
((i+=1))
continue
else
echo "Downloading to $filename"
curl -s https://placekitten.com/$width/$height -o $filename
break
fi
done
MATH! KITTENS!
It doesn’t actually work to run this in a loop, since they’re cached per size. Unless of course you want piles of identical kittens. But it was fun to write anyways.