Image of the day

[rprouse]

Set the desktop wallpaper to a random image from NASA

Today's pic is always at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The pic for each day is at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221112.html

The lower res picture on the page links to the hi-res version. Image, title and description don't have class, id or identifying attributes, so it will need to be by number.

• Should take the high-res version and crop it to the desktop aspect ratio. How?
• How do I strip HTML out of the description to view it?
• How do I set the desktop wallpaper in C#?
• Add the ability to select a day
• Add the ability to select a random day
• Valid date range is >= 20150101

[rprouse]

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
    private static extern Int32 SystemParametersInfo(UInt32 uiAction, UInt32
    uiParam, String pvParam, UInt32 fWinIni);
    private static UInt32 SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER = 20;
    private static UInt32 SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE = 0x1;

[rprouse]

On Ubuntu, https://linuxconfig.org/set-wallpaper-on-ubuntu-20-04-using-command-line

[rprouse]

To convert HTML to plain text, see HTML Agility Pack, https://github.com/ceee/ReadSharp/blob/master/ReadSharp/HtmlUtilities.cs