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The Easy-To-Use Bash-Menu Version

BraveBackgroundMenu

#!/bin/bash

[ -t 1 ] || exit
shopt -s nullglob
declare -u choice
B=$(tput bold)			#Bold
G=$(tput setaf 2)${B}	#Green+bold
N=$(tput sgr0)			#reset to Normal
title="${B}BRAVE BROWSER BACKGROUND BUTLER${N}"
status="$title"
WriteRecord()
{
	author=${1%%_*}
	cat<<RECORD
		"name":"unused",
		"source":"${1}",
		"author":"${author//-/ }",
		"link":"https://community.brave.com/",
		"originalUrl":"unused",
		"license":"unused"
RECORD
}
Generate()
{
	unset x
	echo -e '{"schemaVersion":1,\n\t"images":[{'
	for picname in "${picdir}/"*{webp,png,jpg,jpeg,avif}
	do
		[ $x ] && echo -e '\t},{' || x=set
		WriteRecord  "${picname##*/}"
	done
	echo -e '\t}\n]}'
}
Menu()
{
	while :
	do
		clear
		cat<<-MENU
		$status

		[${B}O${N}]pen Wallpaper Directory
		[${B}E${N}]dit index (Photo.json)
		[${B}G${N}]enerate index (Photo.json)

		[${B}Q${N}]uit
	MENU
		read -s -n1 choice ; status="$title"
		case "$choice" in
		O) caja "$picdir"		; status="${G}Caja launched${N}"		;;
		E) pluma "$index"		& status="${G}Pluma launched${N}"		;;
		G) Generate >"$index"	; status="${G}Photo.json generated${N}"	;;
		Q) exit					;;
		esac
	done
}
exec 3< <( find $HOME/.config -name "manifest.json" )
while read -u3 manifest
do
	if grep "Brave NTP background images component" "$manifest" &>/dev/null
	then
		index="${manifest/manifest.json/photo.json}"
		picdir="${manifest%/*}"
		cp -n "${index}" "${index}.original"
		[ $(wc -l <"${index}") -lt 3 ] && sed -i "s|,|,\n|g" "${index}"
		Menu
	fi
done

P.S. this posted code will be updated for minor optimizations.

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