Statusbar-TenorGIF App for Linux

A quick and dirty QT Statusbar implementation for grabbing GIFs from Tenor, since there is no offical one and I didnt find an unofficial one. This was intended for use under Linux, however it was also functional enough on MacOS.

Quick Demo:

The Application might look different depending on what graphical desktop environment you have installed. I have KDE and the theme used during this GIF-Recording was this one made by yeyushengfan258.

Prerequisite:

Make sure to have QT5 installed on your machine. Check here

Features:

• Search GIFs from Tenor (Sorted either by Ranked or Random) Default: Ranked
• Autocomplete Searchterms
• Show Trending GIFS
• Show Trending Search Terms
• Saves Configuration of Column Count and Hide Preference in app/settings.json
• Global Shortcut to reopen Window even if hidden or minimized. Default Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + G customizable through app/settings.json
• Copy GIF Link by clicking on GIF (works on some Applications e.g Discord)
• Save GIF by right-clicking on GIF
• Closing Application completely either with Ctrl+Q, use Quit in Menubar or by right-clicking Statusbar Icon.

Install:

First go get yourself a free API-Key from here.

Then clone the project:

> git clone https://github.com/LuiDavinci/Linux_Statusbar_TenorGIF_App.git

Now open app/__init__.py with any editor and swap out YOURAPIKEYHERE with your newly attained API-Key.

You can now navigate back to the project root Linux_Statusbar_TenorGIF_App/

The Plain Python Way

Make sure to have at least Python 3.8 (It's been tested with 3.9 as well)

> python3.8 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

After that's done you simply start the App

> python3.8 main.py

Done!

The Conda Way (Recommended)

Make sure you have Conda installed. Then in your terminal you do:

> conda create --name WhateverNameYouWant python=3.8

Finish the creation and afterwards do:

> conda activate WhateverNameYouWant
> pip install -r requirements.txt
> python main.py

Done!

Disclaimer:

The reason this app was created was simply because I was too lazy to visit Tenor everytime I wanted a GIF. That means this is indeed a quick and dirty implementation with no focus on elegant, smart or performant code. I also doubt any updates will be coming. However feel free to use pull-request or the issue tab.