Bing Daily Wallpaper Scraper

Overview

An Apify actor that scrapes Bing's daily homepage wallpapers and their metadata. It fetches the current day's image by default and can retrieve older wallpapers via input configuration. No proxy is required.

Key Features

• Scrapes the daily Bing wallpaper image and its details.
• Returns structured data including: title, date, image URL, copyright text, copyright link, and the quiz link.
• Can fetch today's wallpaper plus historical wallpapers from the past 1-7 days.
• Low cost: consumes approximately 1 compute unit per 300 runs.

How to Use

Configure the actor with the required input and run it. Results are stored in the run's default dataset, which can be exported via the Apify API or directly from the app.

Input Configuration

The actor accepts the following input fields:

• marketCode (Required - String)
  Specifies the regional market for the wallpaper (e.g., en-US). Bing serves different images per region.

• Select days before (Optional - Array of Numbers)
  An array (values 1-7) to fetch older wallpapers. For example, [1, 3] fetches yesterday's and the wallpaper from three days ago. Today's wallpaper is always included.

Output

The actor outputs each wallpaper as a single JSON object to the dataset. A typical result looks like this:

{
  "title": "Winter in Salzburg",
  "date": "2021-12-05",
  "url": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=OHR.SalzburgKrampus_EN-US9186815435_1920x1080.jpg&rf=LaDigue_1920x1080.jpg&pid=hp",
  "copyright": "The Salzach River in Salzburg, Austria (© MacEaton/Alamy)",
  "copyrightlink": "https://www.bing.com/search?q=salzburg+austria&form=hpcapt&filters=HpDate%3a%2220211205_0800%22",
  "quiz": "https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+homepage+quiz&filters=WQOskey:%22HPQuiz_20211205_SalzburgKrampus%22&FORM=HPQUIZ"
}

You can download the results in formats like JSON, CSV, or XML using the dataset API endpoint:
https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/[DATASET_ID]/items?format=[FORMAT]