nasa-client-pro 0.1.0

Simple NASA API Client

Prepare environment

mkdir nasa-client
cd nasa-client
uv init --package nasa-client --python=3.14
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

touch main.py  

Create .env file

touch .env .gitignore

# Add your NASA_API_KEY API key to the .env file
echo "NASA_API_KEY=your_api_key_here" >> .env

cd src/nasa_client
touch client.py

Add packages

• https://github.com/Delgan/loguru.git
• https://github.com/psf/black.git
• https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv.git

uv add requests python-dotenv loguru black

from .client import NASAClient

• makes it easy to import
• . means from the current package
• go inside client.py and import NASAClient
• without it, users would have to write
  • from nasa_client.client import NASAClient
• with it, users can simply write
  • from nasa_client import NASAClient

__all__=[NASAClient]

• this controls what gets exported publicly from your package
• think of it like a public API whitelist
• if someone does from nasa_client import * (cleaner, more user-friendly API)
  • only things listed in __all__ will be imported

Bonus: what happens without __all__?

Format code

black main.py
black src/nasa_client/*.py

Git

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/<USERNAME>/nasa-client.git
git push -u origin main

Run Locally

uv run main.py 

Build Package

uv add build twine

Build and Publish to PyPI

• Go to: https://pypi.org/manage/account/token/

# build project
uv build

# publish project
export UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME="__token__"
export UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD="pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmcCJ..."
uv publish

# another
uv publish --username __token__ --password pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmcCJ...

# another
export PYPI_TOKEN="pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmcCJ..."
uv publish --username __token__ --password $PYPI_TOKEN --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/

# publish to testpypi
uv publish --username __token__ --password pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmcCJ...

# using twine
export TWINE_USERNAME=__token__
export TWINE_PASSWORD=pypi-AgENdGVzdC5
twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

twine upload dist/* \
--verbose \
--repository testpypi \
--username __token__ \
--password pypi-AgEIcHlwaS5vcmcCJ...


# debug trick
uv publish https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ \
  --username __token__ \
  --password $PYPI_TOKEN

Install Wheel Files

pip install dist/nasa-client-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
uv tool install dist/nasa-client-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

USAGE

• pip install nasa-client
• export NASA_API_KEY=tYYvy2MZehnbOAY5t...

import os
from nasa_client import NASAClient

NASA_API_KEY=os.getenv("NASA_API_KEY")

nasa = NASAClient(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # get astronomy picture of the day
    photo = nasa.get_apod()
    print(photo["title"])
    
    # search asteroids
    asteroids = nasa.search_asteroids("2026-04-01", "2026-04-06")
    print(asteroids["element_count"])