Heliacal

Python module to get sunrise, sunset, daytime, and twilight data for a location.

This is an API wrapper for sunrise-sunset.org.

To get started, install heliacal

pip install heliacal

Next, add heliacal and datetime to your project

from heliacal import Heliacal
import datetime

Heliacal requires datetime to run.

Create a heliacal object

Heliacal uses latitude and longitude to determine solar data for a location. You can use modules such as geopy to get the co-ordinates of a named location.

los_angeles = Heliacal(34.052235, -118.243683)

By default, Heliacal will set the date to today, to change that, use set_date().

los_angeles.set_date(datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 31)) # Get solar data for 2018-12-31

You now have a working Heliacal instance! You can get the following information:

los_angeles.sunrise # 2018-12-31 14:58:24
los_angeles.sunset # 2019-01-01 00:54:16
los_angeles.solar_noon # 2018-12-31 19:56:20
los_angeles.day_length # 35752 (seconds)
los_angeles.civil_twilight_begin # 2018-12-31 14:30:50
los_angeles.civil_twilight_end # 2019-01-01 01:21:49
los_angeles.nautical_twilight_begin # 2018-12-31 13:59:38
los_angeles.nautical_twilight_end # 2019-01-01 01:53:01
los_angeles.astronomical_twilight_begin # 2018-12-31 13:29:11
los_angeles.astronomical_twilight_end # 2019-01-01 02:23:28

# For debugging or other things, there are:
los_angeles.requesturl # https://api.sunrise-suns...
los_angeles.json # {'sunrise': '2018-12-31T14:58:...

Note: Heliacal returns UTC datetimes, it is the developer's job to turn them to the respective timezone.

Troubleshooting

If you receive an SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error and you are using MacOS. Follow these steps in terminal:

cd /Applications/Python\ 3.7
./Install Certificates.command