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thejayman77 ed814c97b9 Daily Art engine: museum-guide blurb (grounded LLM) + extracted palette
- daily_art gains blurb + palette columns (idempotent migration).
- art._palette: Pillow median-cut to ~5 hex colors from the cached image (best-
  effort → [] on any failure). art._blurb: a warm 2-3 sentence "what you're
  looking at" note grounded in the Met catalogue (title/artist/bio/date/medium/
  classification/culture/tags). Prompt leans on context/significance and the
  title+tags for subject — explicitly NOT asserting literal composition (figure
  counts/poses) it can't see, since the model can't view the image. Markdown
  stripped from the output.
- pick_daily generates both (client optional → blurb skipped when absent); cycle
  + art CLI pass an LLM client. /api/art/today exposes blurb + palette.
- Backfilled the last 3 days on host (Veteran / Magnolia Vase / Bierstadt).
- scripts/art_blurb_palette_backfill.py for in-place backfill (no re-pick).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 20:12:54 -04:00

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"""Daily Art — the /art room. One gorgeous public-domain masterwork a day, picked from
a curated pool of museum highlights and cached to OUR origin (image + metadata), so the
homepage never waits on, nor hotlinks, the museum.
Source: The Met Collection API (no key; public-domain works are CC0 — free, unrestricted,
caching encouraged). Curation = isHighlight + isPublicDomain + hasImages, so the pool is
masterworks, never potsherds. Built to be bulletproof: a failed pick falls through to the
next candidate, and a failed day keeps yesterday's piece — the room is never empty.
Network calls go through module-level _http_* helpers so tests can monkeypatch them.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import hashlib
import json
import os
import sqlite3
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from pathlib import Path
from .localtime import local_today
MET_BASE = "https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1"
# Broad, visual, museum-grade terms. Each is filtered to public-domain highlights with
# images, then deduped — a diverse pool of a few thousand masterworks.
HARVEST_QUERIES = ("painting", "portrait", "landscape", "still life", "flowers",
"sculpture", "drawing", "garden", "river", "sunset")
_UA = {"User-Agent": "upbeatBytes/1.0 (+https://upbeatbytes.com)"}
_PICK_ATTEMPTS = 8 # candidates to try before giving up for the day
_NO_REPEAT_POOL = 40 # pick the daily piece from the N least-recently-shown
_MIN_IMAGE_BYTES = 3000 # smaller than this = not a real image
def _http_json(url: str, timeout: int = 20) -> dict:
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=_UA)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
return json.loads(r.read().decode("utf-8"))
def _http_bytes(url: str, timeout: int = 30) -> tuple[bytes, str]:
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=_UA)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
return r.read(), (r.headers.get("Content-Type") or "")
def cache_dir() -> Path:
"""Where cached images live — beside the DB, so the host cycle writes and the API
container reads the same mounted volume."""
override = os.environ.get("GOODNEWS_ART_CACHE")
if override:
d = Path(override)
else:
db = Path(os.environ.get("GOODNEWS_DB", "data/goodnews.sqlite3"))
d = db.parent / "art_cache"
d.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
return d
# --- harvest: build the curated pool of object IDs -------------------------------
def harvest_pool(conn: sqlite3.Connection, queries=HARVEST_QUERIES, source: str = "met") -> dict:
"""Query the Met for public-domain highlight images across broad art terms; store the
deduped object IDs. Cheap: each search returns all matching IDs in one call. Per-query
failure is non-fatal."""
found, errors = set(), 0
for q in queries:
url = (f"{MET_BASE}/search?isHighlight=true&hasImages=true&isPublicDomain=true"
f"&q={urllib.request.quote(q)}")
try:
data = _http_json(url)
for oid in (data.get("objectIDs") or []):
if isinstance(oid, int):
found.add(oid)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 — non-fatal per query
errors += 1
before = conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM art_pool WHERE source=?", (source,)).fetchone()[0]
conn.executemany(
"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO art_pool (source, object_id) VALUES (?, ?)",
[(source, oid) for oid in found],
)
conn.commit()
after = conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM art_pool WHERE source=?", (source,)).fetchone()[0]
return {"queried": len(queries), "errors": errors, "found": len(found),
"added": after - before, "pool": after}
# --- daily pick: choose, fetch, cache --------------------------------------------
def _object(object_id: int) -> dict:
return _http_json(f"{MET_BASE}/objects/{object_id}")
def _fetch_to_cache(url: str | None, stem: str) -> str | None:
"""Download one image URL to cache as {stem}.{ext}; return the filename or None.
Writes to a temp file then atomically renames, so a reader never sees a half-file."""
if not url:
return None
try:
data, ctype = _http_bytes(url)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
return None
if not ctype.startswith("image/") or len(data) < _MIN_IMAGE_BYTES:
return None
ext = ".png" if "png" in ctype else ".jpg"
fname = f"{stem}{ext}"
cdir = cache_dir()
tmp = cdir / f".{stem}.tmp"
try:
tmp.write_bytes(data)
os.replace(tmp, cdir / fname) # atomic
except OSError:
try:
tmp.unlink()
except OSError:
pass
return None
return fname
def _download_image(obj: dict, object_id: int) -> str | None:
"""Cache the day's images to our origin. Stores the web-large display copy as
{id}.{ext} (what the page shows) and, when available, the full-resolution copy as
{id}-full.{ext} (what the lightbox opens, so zoom fills the screen). Returns the
display filename or None if even the display copy couldn't be fetched."""
display = _fetch_to_cache(obj.get("primaryImageSmall") or obj.get("primaryImage"), str(object_id))
if not display:
return None
full_url = obj.get("primaryImage")
if full_url and full_url != obj.get("primaryImageSmall"):
_fetch_to_cache(full_url, f"{object_id}-full") # best-effort hi-res for zoom
return display
def _palette(image_path: "Path", n: int = 5) -> list[str]:
"""Extract ~n representative hex colors from the cached image (for the 'colors in this
piece' strip). Best-effort: any failure → empty list (the strip just hides)."""
try:
from PIL import Image
with Image.open(image_path) as im:
im = im.convert("RGB")
im.thumbnail((120, 120)) # tiny — palette, not fidelity
# Adaptive median-cut to a small palette, then order by how much of the image each covers.
q = im.quantize(colors=max(n * 2, 8), method=Image.Quantize.MEDIANCUT)
pal = q.getpalette()
counts = sorted(q.getcolors(), reverse=True) # [(count, index), ...] most-used first
out, seen = [], set()
for _count, idx in counts:
r, g, b = pal[idx * 3], pal[idx * 3 + 1], pal[idx * 3 + 2]
hexc = f"#{r:02x}{g:02x}{b:02x}"
if hexc in seen:
continue
seen.add(hexc)
out.append(hexc)
if len(out) >= n:
break
return out
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 — palette is decorative; never break the pick
return []
_BLURB_SYSTEM = (
"You are the calm, knowledgeable curator of a daily-art feature for a general audience — "
"people who enjoy a beautiful painting but aren't art historians. In 2 to 3 warm, plain "
"sentences, help them appreciate the piece and why it's worth a moment: its mood, the "
"artist, the era or movement, and a little real context or significance.\n"
"GROUNDING (important): the catalogue details below — especially the title and the "
"'Depicts' tags — are your only reliable guide to the SUBJECT. You cannot actually see the "
"image, so do NOT assert literal visual specifics you can't verify: do not state how many "
"figures are shown, their exact poses or actions, colors, or background details. Lean on "
"what's certain (title, tags, medium, date, artist, movement) and on feeling/significance. "
"If you don't recognize the exact work, stay general and contextual rather than inventing. "
"No preamble, no title repetition, no hype, no markdown — just the note."
)
def _blurb(client, obj: dict) -> str | None:
"""A short 'museum guide' note for the piece, grounded in the Met catalogue metadata.
Best-effort + cached by the caller; returns None on any trouble."""
tags = ", ".join(t.get("term", "") for t in (obj.get("tags") or []) if t.get("term"))[:200]
facts = "\n".join(f"{k}: {v}" for k, v in (
("Title", obj.get("title")), ("Artist", obj.get("artistDisplayName")),
("Artist bio", obj.get("artistDisplayBio")), ("Date", obj.get("objectDate")),
("Medium", obj.get("medium")), ("Type", obj.get("objectName")),
("Classification", obj.get("classification")), ("Culture", obj.get("culture")),
("Period", obj.get("period")), ("Depicts", tags),
) if v)
user = f"Catalogue details:\n{facts}\n\nWrite the note."
try:
out = client.chat_text([{"role": "system", "content": _BLURB_SYSTEM},
{"role": "user", "content": user}]) or ""
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
return None
out = " ".join(out.replace("*", "").replace("_", " ").split()).strip()[:600] # no stray markdown
return out or None
def _candidates(conn: sqlite3.Connection, art_date: str, source: str) -> list[int]:
"""The N least-recently-shown pool IDs, rotated deterministically by the date so the
same piece shows for everyone that day and pieces don't repeat soon."""
rows = conn.execute(
"SELECT object_id FROM art_pool WHERE source=? AND blocked=0 "
"ORDER BY shown_at IS NOT NULL, shown_at, object_id LIMIT ?",
(source, _NO_REPEAT_POOL),
).fetchall()
ids = [r[0] for r in rows]
if not ids:
return ids
seed = int(hashlib.sha256(art_date.encode()).hexdigest(), 16) % len(ids)
return ids[seed:] + ids[:seed] # rotate so the daily choice is stable but varies
def pick_daily(conn: sqlite3.Connection, art_date: str | None = None, source: str = "met",
force: bool = False, client=None) -> dict | None:
"""Pick + cache the day's art. Idempotent (skips if today's already done unless force).
Tries successive candidates so a bad object/image never breaks the day; returns the
stored row, or None if nothing could be fetched (caller keeps the prior day's piece)."""
art_date = art_date or local_today()
existing = conn.execute("SELECT * FROM daily_art WHERE art_date=?", (art_date,)).fetchone()
if existing and not force:
return dict(existing)
for oid in _candidates(conn, art_date, source):
try:
obj = _object(oid)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
continue
if not obj.get("isPublicDomain"):
continue
fname = _download_image(obj, oid)
if not fname:
continue
# All network/LLM/compute is done up front; only then a brief write txn + commit.
palette = json.dumps(_palette(cache_dir() / fname)) or None
blurb = _blurb(client, obj) if client else None
conn.execute(
"INSERT INTO daily_art (art_date, source, object_id, title, artist, date_text, medium, "
"department, credit, source_url, image_file, image_url_full, is_public_domain, blurb, palette) "
"VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?) "
"ON CONFLICT(art_date) DO UPDATE SET object_id=excluded.object_id, title=excluded.title, "
"artist=excluded.artist, date_text=excluded.date_text, medium=excluded.medium, "
"department=excluded.department, credit=excluded.credit, source_url=excluded.source_url, "
"image_file=excluded.image_file, image_url_full=excluded.image_url_full, "
"is_public_domain=excluded.is_public_domain, blurb=excluded.blurb, palette=excluded.palette",
(art_date, source, oid, obj.get("title") or "Untitled",
obj.get("artistDisplayName") or None, obj.get("objectDate") or None,
obj.get("medium") or None, obj.get("department") or None,
obj.get("creditLine") or None, obj.get("objectURL") or None, fname,
obj.get("primaryImage") or None, 1 if obj.get("isPublicDomain") else 0, blurb, palette),
)
conn.execute("UPDATE art_pool SET shown_at=? WHERE source=? AND object_id=?",
(art_date, source, oid))
conn.commit()
return dict(conn.execute("SELECT * FROM daily_art WHERE art_date=?", (art_date,)).fetchone())
return None # nothing fetched today — get_today falls back to the latest piece
def get_today(conn: sqlite3.Connection, art_date: str | None = None) -> dict | None:
"""Today's piece if present, else the most recent one cached (room is never empty)."""
if art_date:
row = conn.execute("SELECT * FROM daily_art WHERE art_date=?", (art_date,)).fetchone()
if row:
return dict(row)
row = conn.execute("SELECT * FROM daily_art ORDER BY art_date DESC LIMIT 1").fetchone()
return dict(row) if row else None
def run_daily(conn: sqlite3.Connection, source: str = "met", client=None) -> dict:
"""Cycle entry point: ensure the pool exists, then ensure today has a piece. Bounded
and non-fatal — safe to call every cycle (it no-ops once the day is picked)."""
pool = conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM art_pool WHERE source=?", (source,)).fetchone()[0]
harvested = None
if pool == 0:
harvested = harvest_pool(conn, source=source)
picked = pick_daily(conn, source=source, client=client)
return {"pool": conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM art_pool WHERE source=?", (source,)).fetchone()[0],
"harvested": harvested, "picked_object": picked.get("object_id") if picked else None}