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Gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.\n\nAnd fortunately for us, they have an [API](https://unsplash.com/developers).\n\nNow, this free API, does have rate limits, and since I do not want to risk having my rate limit used up fetching images for the\nextension (or more maliciously by someone stealing my API key and using it for their applications), I had to set it up so that\nthe Unsplash API was only called a certain number of times.\n\nEnter [AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/?nc2=h_m1).\n\nUsing Python and AWS Lambda, I easily made a script that will call the Unsplash API and get 30 random landscape oriented, \nand 30 random portrait oriented images from my street art images collection. Then, I set up an [Amazon CloudWatch](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/tutorial-scheduled-events-schedule-expressions.html) \ntrigger to run the function once per day, ensuring that I always stay in [AWS Lambda's free tier](https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/).\n\nNow that I am pulling my image information for free, where do I host this information for my extension to pull for free? \n[GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/). \n\nJust add a couple lines to my AWS Lambda function that use [PyGitHub](https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub)\nto commit the new image data as a JSON file on my gh-pages branch (if only [GitHub still tracked streaks](https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/163), amirite?), and vualá, I have a [free, constantly updating, JSON file](https://streetarttab.com/unsplashLinks.json)\nof hand picked street art images for my extension to pull.\n\n## Attributions\n\nAll images are hosted on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/), and credit for each individual image is given to the photographer\nwhenever their image is displayed on the extension and website.\n\nThe extension uses [Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/)'s redo icon. Check out their license [here](https://fontawesome.com/license).\n\nThe image displayed in the screenshot taken for this readme, and used as the thumbnail for [Open Graph tags](http://ogp.me/), was taken by Mark Hayward. Check out his Unsplash portfolio [here](https://unsplash.com/@mhayward).\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjacobpetersen%2Fstreetarttab","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fjacobpetersen%2Fstreetarttab","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjacobpetersen%2Fstreetarttab/lists"}