Photo album, wallpaper, API questions

[Robert Krawitz]

On May 7, 2026 6:32:56 AM EDT, Andreas Schleth via KPhotoAlbum <kphotoalbum at kde.org> wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>if you can do a bit of coding/scripting access to index.xml should be quite easy as the file is human readable.
>Just have a look inside using your favourite editor.
>Cheers, Andreas
>
>Am 7. Mai 2026 11:16:31 MESZ schrieb Jonathan Schultz <jonathan at schultz.la>:
>>Having used KPhotoalbum (and previously KimDaBa) for decades now, I'm very impressed by many of its functions, and especially by the fact that although I have paid zero attention to maintenance, it continues to track my photos with no loss of data.
>>
>>What I would love to do with it now is use it to feed images to a digital photo frame, a wallpaper plugin for KDE/Plasma, and whatever else could use a feed of images. I guess what I need is an API to access the image database and the images themselves. I can't see any obvious reference to such a thing so asking now on this channel.
>>
>>Any help or pointers much appreciated.

There are some examples of accessing and querying the database in `contributed`.