https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382320
Bug ID: 382320
Summary: Wikimedia Picture of the Day does not work
Product: kdeplasma-addons
Version: 5.10.1
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: kimpanel-dataengine
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: sand...@sandfox.me
Target Milestone: ---
Problem: Picture of the Day not shown if Wikimedia is selected (black screen)
Reproducuble: always
Reason:
https://github.com/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/blob/Plasma/5.10/dataengines/potd/wcpotdprovider.cpp#L54
Image retrieval for this options relies on a service that is down at the moment
How to fix:
The service can retrieve data directly from wikimedia with two requests
1) Request the picture at the day page [1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=images&format=json&formatversion=2&titles=Template:Potd
1a) Get picture name at received json as name = query.pages[0].images[0].title
2) Query picture url by [2][3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=json&formatversion=2&titles=***urlencode(name)***&iiprop=url
2a) Get target url as url = query.pages[0].imageinfo[0].url
Sorry for the pseudocode, C++ is not my speciality
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Showing_interesting_content
[2]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30781455/how-to-get-image-url-in-wiki-api
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bimageinfo
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