NASA APOD wallpaper stopped working

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As of today, the APOD wallpaper is no longer fetched. It results in an SSL error.

In fact, this was announced months in advance: The NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) site has a new URL: https://science.nasa.gov/apod .

Unfortunately, the whole document structure has changed, and especially the composition of the picture’s URL. It is no longer created with a fixed pattern but fetched from Wordpress assets, as it seems.

This means, that we cannot simply exchange the URL in apodprovider.cpp; there needs to be a new code to search for the images’ URL in the HTML document.

I narrowed the position of the image URL down to the element

<figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-september-30-arp-78-peculiar-galaxy-in-aries/"><img width="1772" height="1182" src="https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/cds/apod/apod/2026/october/NGC772_Robert_Eder.jpg?w=1772&amp;h=1182&amp;fit=clip&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"

which contains the <img> element with the URL of today’s image.

IMO this could still be extracted with RegExes, as it is coded right now, though a different code that works on the DOM would probably be more reliable.

Is anyone working on this already?

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yeah nasa moved apod to science.nasa.gov and broke the old url pattern. already filed:

til that lands u can just swap Picture of the Day over to Bing or Wikimedia in wallpaper settings so ur not staring at a blank/ssl fail.

api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod still serves a clean hdurl if someone rewrites the provider off html scraping.

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Thanks, I directly commented on Bug 526447.

The other bug (518709) is from April, before the major change, so it’s probably obsolete.