nasawrapper 0.0.4

A wrapper for NASA APIs

Warnings

This library is an alpha release yet, maybe there are some bugs, please report them to issues page.

Credits

Every API used in this library is avaliable on NASA API portal. This is just a simple wrapper to fetch their APIs and this library does not have any relationship to NASA, every issue/suggestion should be reported on the issues page.
The documentation provided on this readme has inspiration on the documentation provided on the NASA API portal about their APIs.

Instalation

You can install this package by PIP using the following command:

pip install nasawrapper

Updating package

Updating package using PIP:

pip install --upgrade nasawrapper

Documentation

APOD

This API has the following description in their website: "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.".
The class responsable for this API is Apod, which you have to instantiate with 2 parameters: an api key (you can get it here) and a boolean indicating if you want to be warned about some eventually alerts when using the wrapper (defaults to True).
Example:

from nasawrapper import Apod

apod = Apod("your-api-key", False)
# in this case, it will not warn you on the console

# setting the second variable to True or not specifying
# it will make the lib warn you in the console

This class has only one method which make the request to the API, called get_apod. For using it, you have to provide a single parameter (a dict) with some keys with the information you want to use to make the request. Avaliable keys are:

Parameter	Function	Type
date	The date of the APOD image to retrieve (must be in format YYYY-MM-DD)	datetime.datetime
start_date	The start of a date range, when requesting date for a range of dates. Cannot be used with date (must be in format YYYY-MM-DD).	datetime.datetime
end_date	The end of the date range, when used with start_date. Can not be used without start_date and can not be after start_date (must be in format YYYY-MM-DD).	datetime.datetime
count	If this is specified then count randomly chosen images will be returned. Cannot be used with date or start_date and end_date.	int
thumbs	Return the URL of video thumbnail. If an APOD is not a video, this parameter is ignored.	bool

You can not provide any other parameters, or an error will be thrown.
Examples:

from nasawrapper import Apod

apod = Apod("your-api-key", False)

# fetching data between two dates
print(apod.get_apod({
    "start_date": "2020-10-10",
    "end_date": "2020-10-11",
    "thumbs": True
}))

# fetch specific number of data
print(apod.get_apod({
    "count": 5
}))