Spotlight photos on X

README.md

This Gist contains a bash and a fish shell script to get MS Spotlight photos on your Linux machine.

Depends on curl, jq and sed.

spotlight.fish

#!/usr/bin/fish

argparse 'h/help' 'd/destination' -- $argv
if [ "$argv"  = "" ]
  set argv /usr/share/backgrounds/spotlight.jpg
end

set date (date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') 
set wallpaper (curl -s  "https://arc.msn.com/v3/Delivery/Cache?pid=209567&fmt=json&rafb=0&ua=WindowsShellClient%2F0&disphorzres=9999&dispvertres=9999&lo=80217&pl=en-US&lc=hu-HU&ctry=hu&time=$date" | jq .batchrsp.items[0].item | sed 's/\\\\"/"/g' | sed 's/^\"//' | sed 's/\"$//' | jq -r .ad.image_fullscreen_001_landscape.u)
curl -s "$wallpaper" -o $argv

spotlight.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash

destination=/usr/share/backgrounds/spotlight.jpg

while getopts "d:" OPTION; do
  case "$OPTION" in
    d)
      destination=$OPTARG
      ;;
    \?) echo "Usage: cmd [-d]"
      ;;
  esac
done

date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') 

wallpaper=$(curl -s  "https://arc.msn.com/v3/Delivery/Cache?pid=209567&fmt=json&rafb=0&ua=WindowsShellClient%2F0&disphorzres=9999&dispvertres=9999&lo=80217&pl=en-US&lc=hu-HU&ctry=hu&time=$date" | jq .batchrsp.items[0].item | sed 's/\\\\"/"/g' | sed 's/^\"//' | sed 's/\"$//' | jq -r .ad.image_fullscreen_001_landscape.u)

curl -s "$wallpaper" -o $destination