Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos

Re:Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos by icedog on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:17AM (#7914833)

I run a website which uses a blurred photo as the background. I'd love an API from splashbase that I could poll daily for rotating in new images on my server.

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Re:Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos by foxpc on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:32AM (#7914854)

Show mercy to your users!

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Re:Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos by PavlovsCat on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:38AM (#7915474)

By allowing browsers to cache the image preferably: everybody gets a random photo, which then sticks for a while, but if you want a new one, you can always just force reload the page. But of course, it all stands and falls with the selection of images.

I have no idea wether visitors get anything out of this, probably not, but I use random color schemes on my personal site and it makes it much more enjoyable for me to work on it. Most people only ever see one page or two, but I have seen thousands if not tens of thousands, and a bit of variety can go a long way :)

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Re:Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos by pestaa on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:55AM (#7914904)

Bing also shows different daily backgrounds.

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Re:Splashbase: Find free, public domain, hi res photos by nthj on Thursday June 19, 2014 @01:03PM (#7917114)

I'm a developer for Ticketbud, and we let our event organizers upload high-res background images on their event pages. If Splashbase had an API, I'd be keen to work it into our interface.

https://tbkmf.ticketbud.com/2014

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