source.unsplash.com deprecation (unsplash stopped working on nwg-lock)

[EvantheGrump]

The method that is used in nwg-shell-config to download images from unsplash to use as an image for the lockscreen has been deprecated by unsplash. From now on, a developer account and api key is required to download images from unsplash.

I've messed around with the API a little bit, and found that this python reliably fetches a random images according to the parameters:

CLIENT_ID (api key)
QUERY (keyword for photo)
WIDTH (image width)
HEIGHT (image height)
PATH (path for images)

random_url = f'https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&query={QUERY}&orientation=landscape'
response = requests.get(random_url)

if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()

    raw_url = data['urls']['raw']
    photo_id = raw_url.split('/')[-1].split('?')[0]
    image_url = f'https://images.unsplash.com/{photo_id}?w=WIDTH&h=HEIGHT'

    image_path = 'PATH'
    response_image = requests.get(image_url)

    if response_image.status_code == 200:
        with open(image_path, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(response_image.content)

        os.system(f'swaylock -i {image_path}')
    else:
        print('Error downloading image:', response_image.status_code)
else:
    print('Error fetching data:', response.status_code)

I'm not sure how I would go about implementing this in a pull request, as my knowledge of python is lacking. I would greatly appreciate it if you reimplemented unsplash or an alternative image-fetching service!

[nwg-piotr]

Yep, I'm not sure whether a screen locker complies to their rules. I wrote them an email to find out.

[edit] They don't bother reading the emails they receive. I've been sent back to API guidelines.

[nwg-piotr]

Their current API rules are too strict. I decided to switch to wallhaven.cc.

[EvantheGrump]

Fantastic, thanks so much for your work.