New wallpaper get downloaded with the Bing Watermark

[vmonichon]

It seems that the last few wallpapers it downloaded are all watermarked.

If I try manually i.e:

www.bing.com/th?id=OHR.CormorantMackerel_EN-US7682867267_1920x1080.jpg

The watermark is not present. Though the URL is different in the script:

https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?......

[timothymctim]

Thanks for reporting. Could you maybe share some more information if this problem persists for you? I haven’t seen a watermark added to the pictures yet. The script checks using the second link (e.g., https://bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=xml&idx=0&n=3) for the right image location and then downloads the wallpaper by adapting the URL from the urlBase tag.

[vmonichon]

Hi,
Yes, I'm running a scheduled task with the following parameter:
-WindowStyle Hidden -file C:\Users\vmc\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts\bing-wallpapers.ps1 -files 0 -locale "en-US" -resolution auto

The auto resolution elect the 1920x1200 resolution to be downloaded.

I have attached today file:

I do see in the xml the url tag is bringing back this url:
https://bing.com//th?id=OHR.GypsumSand_EN-US7746438548_1920x1080.jpg&rf=LaDigue_1920x1080.jpg&pid=hp

And yes the result does not have the watermark, but it come back as a jfif file format.

If I consider only the first part:
https://bing.com/th?id=OHR.GypsumSand_EN-US7746438548_1920x1080.jpg
Then it comes as a jpeg and without the watermark:

Not quite sure what's going on. Notice that all the picture above lead to 1920x1080

I see in the code you are using the urlbase xml tag, so using it so manually with the resolution the auto is using my machine:

https://bing.com/th?id=OHR.CormorantMackerel_EN-US7682867267_1920x1200.jpg

I was able to reproduce:

So I think the issue is the resolution, they seem to push images that are watermarked.

Thank anyway. Great work with the script ;)

[timothymctim]

I tried to find some other URLs to see if they are watermarked as well, but I guess Bing couldn’t publish these high-res photos without a watermark. Thanks for your understanding and well-written bug report!