akionsight / APOD

Get and easily parse the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of The Day) from the NASA open API

APOD

Get and easily parse the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of The Day) from the NASA open API

Dependency Installation

for Windows:- pip install -r requiremnts.txt

for MacOs:- pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Also get a Nasa api key by clicking here.

How to use (Do Not skip)

1. import the file

from APOD import nasa_apod

2. Now call the get_data function and pass the nasa api key as the argument. Note api_key is a string. The data returned will be a Dictionary. Now you can parse the dictionary too

data = nasa_apod.get_data(<your_api_key>)

get_date

the get_date function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the date.

date = nasa_apod.get_date(data)

get_explaination

the get_explaination function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the explaintion.

date = nasa_apod.get_explaination(data)

get_hdurl

the get_hdurl function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the High Definition url of the image.

date = nasa_apod.get_hdurl(data)

get_title

the get_title function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the title of the image.

date = nasa_apod.get_title(data)

get_url

the get_url function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the Standard definition url of the image.

date = nasa_apod.get_hdurl(data)

get_media_type

the get_media_type function takes the dictionary we got above and returns the media type the file (might be a video of a image).

date = nasa_apod.get_hdurl(data)

Other functions

there are also other functions that might help you in situations

download_image

the download_image finction takes the url (hdurl or url) and the date from the function get_date and downloads the image in the current directory and with the file name of the date. the image downloaded is in the .jpg format

nasa_apod.download_image(url, date)

convert_image

sometimes the image we downloaded above might not be in the right format (.jpg) so you may call convert_image function to convert the image into .png. takes the image parameter which is the filepath.

nasa_apod.convert_image(image)

for any other queries contact me on GitHub or my email. please let me know if you built something with it, I would be very happy 😊