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DenverCoder1/minimalistic-wallpaper-collection
Minimalistic, flat art, and colorful, digital nature wallpapers and an API for randomly selecting them
A static collection of 300+ minimalist and flat-art wallpapers with a thin PHP API on top that returns random images. It's a personal wallpaper library, not a tool — the value is entirely in the images themselves, and the API is just a URL that redirects or proxies to GitHub raw content.
The naming convention for files (`author-title.ext`) makes attribution clear and keeps the collection navigable without a database. The GitHub Actions pipeline is well thought out: automated image compression via Tinify and a JSON manifest rebuild on every merge mean the API never drifts out of sync with the actual files. The `?redirect=1` escape hatch for files over 4.5MB is a practical nod to the GitHub raw content size limit rather than silently failing.
The API is not really an API — it's a single PHP file that either proxies the raw image bytes or redirects to GitHub. There's no filtering by style, color, resolution, or aspect ratio, so if you want only ultrawide or only synthwave, you get nothing. Provenance is shaky: a significant portion of images are credited to Reddit usernames or marked 'unknown', and the disclaimer openly admits the maintainer doesn't own most of them, which is a legal grey area that could unravel. The collection is also frozen at the maintainer's taste — contributions are accepted at their discretion, so there's no real growth path.