Bug 498655

Summary:	Bing Picture of the Day stopped working today
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdeplasma-addons	Reporter:	David Korth <gerbilsoft>
Component:	Picture of the Day	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	i, kde, nate, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description David Korth 2025-01-14 15:20:46 UTC

SUMMARY
As of today (2025/01/14), the Bing Picture of the Day provider stopped working. The plugin attempts to fetch the following URL:

https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1

Attempting to fetch this with e.g. wget results in a 0-byte file. It seems Bing changed where the images are located.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set Bing Picture of the Day as the wallpaper.

OBSERVED RESULT
Blank wallpaper.

EXPECTED RESULT
Bing Picture of the Day as the wallpaper.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kernel 6.12.9
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1

Comment 1 David Korth 2025-01-14 15:22:46 UTC

Update: If I go to the URL with Chrome, the URL listed above *does* result in a JSON describing the image information. With Firefox or wget, it's blank. It seems they're blocking certain user-agents.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-01-14 18:16:02 UTC

The wallpaper works and that URL loads for me in Firefox, FWIW. Fedora 41 KDE.

Comment 3 David Redondo 2025-01-15 08:05:54 UTC

URL works for me as well in firefox as well as the actual functionality in plasma.