AutoIcons™ - Automatically download and add beautiful icons to your windows folders

Table of Contents

• What AutoIcons does
• ScreenShots
  • Below are some screenshots of AutoIcons giving Awesome icons to folders
  • Below are some of the screenshots of AutoIcons app
• How to install AutoIcons
• How to build AutoIcons
• How to use AutoIcons
• How to get Google API Key
• How to get Google Search Engine ID
• TroubleShooting
• Donations
• License

What AutoIcons does

AutoIcons finds beautiful icons for your windows folders, and downloads and applies them to your windows folders.

ScreenShots

Below are some screenshots of AutoIcons giving Awesome icons to folders

Below are some of the screenshots of AutoIcons UI

How to install AutoIcons

1. Simply download the windows installer from the Github Releases Page.

How to build AutoIcons

1. Clone the Git repo.
2. Build with Ant - Run the file /build/build.xml with Ant. This will also generate windows installer binary.

• Alternatively, import the repo in Eclipse and press build. This will not create the windows installer binary.

How to use AutoIcons

This application requires you to sign up for free a Api Key from Google. See instructions below on how to get the keys. This application requires you to create a free a Custom Search Engine ID from Google. See instructions below on how to get the ID.

1. Run the application from the Desktop Shortcut or from Program Files/AutoIcons/AutoIcons.exe.
2. Fill in the values of API Key from Google, Custom Search Engine ID for Google Search. (See instructions below on how to get these)
3. Browse and select the path of the top-most folder you want to "Iconize" - i.e., give a beautiful icon.
4. Select the "Depth" of folder you would like to Iconize - Giving this a value of 0 only give the above folder in point 3. the icon. Giving this a value of 1 will give its subfolders icons as well. Giving a value of 2 will iconize sub-folders of sub-folders as well, and so on.
5. Press the button "Run AutoIcons with Above Settings"

How to get Google API Key

1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/dashboard and login with your Google Account.
2. Click the Enable API button at the top.
3. Search and select Custom Search API
4. Click Create Project. Click Create again.
5. Use the default My Project name, or give your project any other name. Click Create Project again.
6. Now click Enable to enable Custom Search API.
7. Click Create Credentials
8. Click What Credentials do I need?
9. You now have your credentials. Copy and paste this in the API Key from Google section of AutoIcons.

The API Key is something like "AIzaSy...."

How to get Google Search Engine ID

1. Go to https://cse.google.com/manage/all and login with your Google Account.
2. Click on Add below search Edit Search Engines
3. In Sites to Search, enter www.findicons.com
4. In Name of the Search Engine, give it any name.
5. Click Create
6. Click Control Panel next to Modify your search engine
7. Turn on the toggle next to the option Image Search
8. In Sites to Search, click Search only included sites and change it to Search the Entire Web but emphasize included sites
9. Click Search Engine ID next to Details.
10. You now have your Search Engine ID. Copy and paste this in the Custom Search Engine ID for Google Search section of AutoIcons.

The Search Engine ID is something like 1234...:ab12..

TroubleShooting

There is a free API limit of 100 requests/day from Google, so only 100 folders can be given icons in 1 day. If you give any extra folders, it will fail. Wait 24 hours, and when you run AutoIcons next time, check the box Check this box to only run on folders failed last time. This will give icons to any folders that failed previously due to reach the limit of 100 requests/day.

Note - It is possible to pay Google to get higher limits of upto 10,000 requests/day.

Donations

If you like this project, buy me a cup of coffee! :)

License

This program is AutoIcons Copyright (C) 2017 Akhil Kedia

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.