nasa-apod 1.0.3

Python package for interacting with NASA APO API

nasa-apod

Creating PyPi package

1. python virtual environment for this project

python3 -m venv venv

activate venv

source venv/bin/activate

2. project structure

   nasa-apod
   --- nasa_apod
   -------init.py
   -------apod.py
   ---.gitignore
   ---README.md
   ---setup.py
   ---pyproject.toml

3. Packaging

   install required packages to create pypi package

   pip install setuptools --upgrade
   pip install wheel
   pip install twine
   

   build distribution package

   python3 setup.py sdist
   

   upload to pypi

   twine upload dist/*
   

installing package

pip install nasa_apod

export you NASA API KEY to env

store your NASA_API_KEY in .env file , and make sure you add .env to .gitignore file.

e.g
NASA_API_KEY=You NASA API KEY

usage

from nasa_apod import apod
import os

# Load environment variables from .env file
load_dotenv()

# Read API key from environment variable
api_key = os.getenv('NASA_API_KEY')

if api_key:
    # Initialize APODService with API key
    apod_service = apod.APODService(api_key)
    
    # Get today's picture
    picture_data = apod_service.get_picture()
    print(picture_data)
else:
    print("NASA_API_KEY environment variable not found.")