Exporting Existing Wallpaper Engine Playlist

[TomKatom]

Hey, is it possible to export my playlist of wallpapers in order to share with a friend?
There already is the save feature for the playlist so the feature is already there, where is it saved?
Thanks in advance.

[Tim]

Hey, the playlist is currently saved in the config.json in the wallpaper_engine directory but it uses absolute paths on your computer so it's not really suitable for sharing. In the future, we will likely add a way to share playlists through Steam directly but it's unfortunately not easily possible right now, sorry!

The best thing you could do is to create a Steam collection and fill it up with all wallpapers from your playlist and then share that collection with your friend:

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=431960&browsesort=trend&section=collections&actualsort=trend&p=1&days=-1

[TomKatom]

Originally posted by Tim:

Hey, the playlist is currently saved in the config.json in the wallpaper_engine directory but it uses absolute paths on your computer so it's not really suitable for sharing. In the future, we will likely add a way to share playlists through Steam directly but it's unfortunately not easily possible right now, sorry!

The best thing you could do is to create a Steam collection and fill it up with all wallpapers from your playlist and then share that collection with your friend:

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=431960&browsesort=trend&section=collections&actualsort=trend&p=1&days=-1

First of all thank you very much for the quick response I really appropriate it.
Adding it to a collection isn't really a viable solution when you have over 400 wallpapers
As for the possible solution I thought of one,
I will simply write a script that does the following:

1. get the json object containing all the paths to the wallpapers
2. parse the path in order to get the wallpaper id (the directory name)
3. combine the link template with the id - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=**WallpaperID**
4. append it to a file containing all the links to the wallpapers in a certain format of my choosing
5. bonus: each wallpaper directory contains a project.json file containing information about the wallpaper, I could add the name of the wallpaper in the file as well for readability.

Then I could also simply write a script that gets such file and simply subscribes to the wallpapers, and then uses the wallpaper IDs to create the playlist in the config.json for you.

Will update with source, have a good day.

PS: I really love wallpaper engine, its a great product!

[Tim]

Haha, well, that's a rather convoluted solution but it might work, yes . Still, it would be nicer if it was a bit more user-friendly from our end, glad you found your own way of handling that for now though!