Extracting Wallpaper Contents

The Easy Stuff

Video and .exe files can be easily obtained after you've subscribed to an item and let steam download it.
You simply open the Wallpaper Engine GUI and Right-Click Open in Explorer the Video/exe wallpaper you wish to obtain.
https://i.imgur.com/fyxEf9e.png

The Still Quite Easy Stuff

Images on the other hand are not simply sitting there. They're put into a proprietary file for special effects to be used on them.
But someone has already created something for that.

You'll want to download RePKG [github.com]
https://github.com/notscuffed/repkg
In case navigating github is confusing for you then you can get the latest version as of this post directly from here [github.com].
https://github.com/notscuffed/repkg/releases/download/v0.2.2-alpha/RePKG.zip

Extract the RePKG.exe program anywhere you want. We're going to make a batch (.bat) file to quickly use it whenever we want.

Open notepad or any text editor of your choice and copy the following while remembering to edit the directories to your own.
The first directory is the location of Wallpaper Engines Workshop files.
The second directory is where the extracted files will go.

repkg extract -e tex -s -o ./output "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960"
cd "C:\RePKG"
DEL /S *.tex *.tex-json

And save that as whatever you want to name it followed by the .bat extension. If you're using notepad then remember to set the "Save as type" to "All Files"
Then place it with the RePKG.exe

After that all you ever need to do is run the .bat file whenever you want to grab images from Wallpaper Engine. RePKG also extracts the data for any effects used but the .bat will automatically delete them with the third command line.

However if any project uses multiple layers used strictly for effects then you will have to manually sort those as there's no way to differentiate them.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go face palm at the numerous amount of people who don't provide the original source for their uploads.

[Jazza]

If anyone wants a more user friendly version, check out this .bat file I made: https://github.com/Jazza-231/auto-repkg/

[Oddtrack]

this doesnt seem to be ripping MP4 files.it gets everything else, just not videos.
any ideas?

[Jyggalag]

If you want a single scene extracted, point it to the scene.pkg, not the directory

repkg extract -e tex -s -o ./output "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960\XXXXXXXXXXXXX\scene.pkg"
cd "C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\RePKG (Extract wallpaper engine)"
DEL /S *.tex *.tex-json

Line 1 points to the scene within the folder you want.
Line 2 is output. I put my RePKG into a folder in Documents, so the scene extracts to the same folder where RePKG is running from.

[Epicsurvivor]

If anyone was having issues with the extract not working, try swapping the destinations of the CD line with the repkg extract line, launching the bat as an admin may help too

[koo]

if u only want one/specific chosen wallpapers:
1. make a new folder somewhere, ex: "C:/wallpapers"
2. goto the folder with the wallpaper u want and copy that folder into the newly created folder.
so like "C:/wallpapers/123456"
3. run the command with the folder from step 1 as the input
so like: repkg extract -e tex -s -o ./output "C:\wallpapers"
the imgs/files should be in the specified output folder, in this case "output"

[Blue Panda]

Nothing happened when I ran the .bat file with the correct location of the Wallpaper Engines Workshop files. Any idea what the issue could be?

[surgery]

thanks :)

[Skwigs]

Same question as SleeplessPanda

[SleeplessPanda]

It extracts every saved wallpaper for me. Is there a way to extract specific wallpapers?

[VectorMane]

Does this also extract audio files? If not, where are those stored?