ComfyUI Extension: Image of the Day

<h1 align="center">Image of the Day for ComfyUI</h1> <p align="center"> Fetch a fresh image straight into your workflow from 8 daily / random sources.<br> Useful for prompt testing, style references, daily-image automations, or just kicking off a workflow with something interesting. </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/lorasandlenses"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Buy%20me%20a%20coffee-FFDD00?style=for-the-badge&logo=buy-me-a-coffee&logoColor=black" alt="Buy Me A Coffee"></a> </p>

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Sources

| Source | API key needed? | Notes | |---|---|---| | Lorem Picsum | No | Random photo at any size — use width / height inputs | | Bing Daily | No | Microsoft Bing's daily wallpaper (with metadata) | | Wikimedia POTD | No | Wikimedia Commons "Picture of the Day" | | Random Dog | No | Random dog photo (Stanford Dogs Dataset via dog.ceo) | | Random Cat | No | Random cat photo (TheCatAPI) | | NASA APOD | Yes (free) | NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. Free key at api.nasa.gov | | Unsplash | Yes (free) | Random Unsplash photo. Free key at unsplash.com/developers | | Pexels | Yes (free) | Random Pexels photo. Free key at pexels.com/api |

API keys are saved automatically the first time you use them — you don't have to re-enter on each workflow load. They're stored locally in a .image_of_day_config.json next to the node file (and gitignored, so you can't accidentally commit one to a fork).

Outputs

| Output | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | image | IMAGE | The fetched image (RGB) | | title | STRING | Image title (where the source provides one) | | description | STRING | Image description / caption | | source_url | STRING | URL of the source page | | copyright | STRING | Attribution / copyright string |

The four metadata strings are useful for overlaying source attribution onto the output image, building daily-archive workflows, or feeding into prompts ("style of {title}").

Install

1. Drop the comfyui-image-of-the-day folder into ComfyUI/custom_nodes/.
2. Restart ComfyUI.
3. Add the Image of the Day node from the image category.
4. Pick a source. Plug a free API key in if needed (it'll be remembered).
5. Wire the image output wherever you'd normally use a LoadImage.

No pip installs needed — the node only uses Python stdlib (urllib, xml, json) plus PIL/numpy/torch which ComfyUI already requires.

Caching

Responses are cached for 1 hour in your system temp folder so repeated queues don't hammer the APIs unnecessarily. The cache is keyed per source / per date / per API key, so changing any of those bypasses the cache.

Notes

• Lorem Picsum uses the width / height and seed inputs. The other sources ignore those — they always return their own size, and a seed of 0 means "random" for the random-image sources.
• NASA APOD sometimes serves a video instead of an image on the day's actual page. The node automatically falls back up to 3 days backwards to find an image entry.
• API keys are stored unencrypted in plain text on your disk. Don't share the config file. The .gitignore blocks accidental commits if you fork this repo.

Support

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