Python 3.10.2 : testing the NASA A.P.I. features.

In this tutorial I will show you how to deal with the NASA A.P.I. and python programming language.

This source code was build and tested yesterday.

This is the source code:

import requests
from datetime import date

today_data = date.today()
today = today_data.strftime("%d%m%Y")
import urllib.parse

# set your API key from nasa https://api.nasa.gov/#NHATS
api_key = "... your A.P.I. key ..."

# this is a simple example to get one day image 
base_url = "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod"

# set the parameters for the API request
params = {
    "api_key": api_key
}

# the request to the API
response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)

# get data
if response.status_code == 200:
    # parse the response
    data = response.json()

    # print the image URL
    print(data["url"])
    # parse the URL
    parsed_url = urllib.parse.urlparse(data["url"])

    # extract the file name from the URL
    file_name = parsed_url.path.split("/")[-1]
    # save the image
    response_image = requests.get(data["url"])
    with open(today+'_'+file_name, "wb") as f:
        f.write(response_image.content)
else:
    # print the status code
    print(response.status_code)

I run the source code and I get these two images ...

...
01/03/2023  01:06 AM            86,943 03012023_AllPlanets_Tezel_1080_annotated.jpg
01/03/2023  04:22 PM           553,426 03012023_KembleCascade_Lease_960.jpg
...