download bing wall paper for recent 7 days

download_bing_wallpaper.py

import requests

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

# notice: add a num after "idx=", this is the count of day before today
api_url = "http://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&n=1&idx="

def get_pic_url(num):
    r = requests.get(api_url+repr(num))
    con = r.json()

    pic_url = con['images'][0]['url']
    pic_intro = con['images'][0]['copyright'].split()[0]
    print('\n')
    print(pic_url)
    print(pic_intro)
    return 'http://www.bing.com'+pic_url, pic_intro


def download_pic(info):
    pic_url = info[0]
    pic_intro = info[1]
    print('download', pic_intro)
    r = requests.get(pic_url)
    with open('pic/' + pic_intro + '.' + pic_url.split('.')[-1], 'wb') as f:
        f.write(r.content)
        f.close()


def wapper(num):
    download_pic(get_pic_url(num))



for i in range(8):
    wapper(i)

This is what the api return.