in progress Bing Wallpaper

[Kennon]

Author:

I am the author of this workflow.

 

Repository: 

https://github.com/kennonb/alfred-workflow-bing-wallpaper

 

Dependencies:

- PHP

 

Description:

 

This workflow shows the latest 8 wallpapers from Bing Wallpaper. Type bing into Alfred (without any arguments), and it will show you the list of current wallpapers.

 

Then it allows you to:

• Press Enter to download the wallpaper and set it as your desktop image.
• Press CMD+Enter to view the wallpaper in your browser.
• Press Shift, or CMD+Y, to quicklook the image at a reduced resolution.

 

Before you use the workflow you will need to make sure you have PHP installed on your local system. The easiest way is through Homebrew.

• brew install php

 

Then you will need to configure the path to where you want the wallpapers to be stored on your computer.

 

Edited February 28 by Kennon Bickhart

[vitor]

Pretty detailed submission! Thank you. A few issues:

• Not really a problem, but you don’t need the if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ] checks (none of the three). Alfred includes all those paths in PATH so you can just php fetchImageList.php "$1" as the whole script (see more).
• The Default Value for the wallpaperFolder variable should be ~/Photos. Using ~ will let Alfred know to use the correct user directory.
• The code fails for me:
  

ERROR: Bing Wallpapers[Script Filter] JSON error: JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set. around line 1, column 0. in JSON:
Warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$desc in /Users/vm/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.D3CEBAB3-CF30-4875-B2C4-2AE8C2AB39E6/fetchImageList.php on line 18

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Alfred\Workflows\Item::subtitle(): Argument #1 ($subtitle) must be of type string, null given, called in /Users/vm/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.D3CEBAB3-CF30-4875-B2C4-2AE8C2AB39E6/fetchImageList.php on line 18 and defined in /Users/vm/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.D3CEBAB3-CF30-4875-B2C4-2AE8C2AB39E6/vendor/joetannenbaum/alfred-workflow/src/ItemParam/HasSubtitle.php:14
Stack trace:
#0 /Users/vm/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.D3CEBAB3-CF30-4875-B2C4-2AE8C2AB39E6/fetchImageList.php(18): Alfred\Workflows\Item->subtitle(NULL)
#1 {main}
  thrown in /Users/vm/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.D3CEBAB3-CF30-4875-B2C4-2AE8C2AB39E6/vendor/joetannenbaum/alfred-workflow/src/ItemParam/HasSubtitle.php on line 14

 

[Kennon]

2 hours ago, vitor said:

Pretty detailed submission! Thank you.

 

A few issues:

• Not really a problem, but you don’t need the if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ] checks (none of the three). Alfred includes all those paths in PATH so you can just php fetchImageList.php "$1" as the whole script (see more).
• The Default Value for the wallpaperFolder variable should be ~/Photos. Using ~ will let Alfred know to use the correct user directory.
• The code fails for me:

 

👍🏻

 

1. I've modified that conditional.

2. I've updated the default value for `wallpaperFolder` to `~/Pictures` since that's the default for macOS (I believe, at least it is for me).

3. I added data caching that should automatically invalidate the API data every 2 hours after the initial cache.

 

I can't reproduce that error though. I'm not sure why you'd be getting that. It seems to work just fine for me no matter what I do. 😕 I tried to remove the whole workflow and re-import from scratch and it was still working.

 

Anything else you can think of that I can try to see what you're seeing? What version of everything are you running? I'm on:

 

- PHP 8.2.1

- macOS Ventura 13.2.1

- Macbook Pro 14" M1

 

I've published the changes so far to GitHub.

[vitor]

On 3/1/2023 at 1:58 AM, Kennon Bickhart said:

What version of everything are you running?

• PHP 8.2.3
• macOS 13.2.1
• M1
  

The machine is otherwise mostly clean. I can still reproduce with the latest version, though now it’s on line 24 of fetchImageList.php.

[Kennon]

Ok. Very odd. I'll try on a new profile on my machine when I get a chance.