I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and stumbled on a reel.
The creator was listing "APIs you shouldn't miss," and the very first one?...
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You know, jpl (NASA's Jet Prupoltion Labrotory) has an OLD e-mail api for querying spaceship positions.
That sounds fascinating, now that I'm aware this was ever a thing, it's time to dive into another rabbit hole
Like, you have to manually put in the email to send the response to as part of the query.
Whoa, that's wild. 😅
Email as an api input sounds super old.
Got a link or doc for that?
Would love to see it.
Check ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons, under email interface.
This is one of the things from the page that I didn't read until just now:
Makes sense. Back then, Unix heads probably lived inside terminals anyway, so email queries weren't even weird, different era.
I used this API years back for a college project (its bad, but out there still lol)
NASA has a number of other free APIs you can use as well, but the NEO one is the most interesting when it comes to understanding data, and the general idea there's giant rocks flying overhead lol.
Hey, that's nice. Would love to see your project too.
Lol, but yup, that's true.
I'm currently exploring these in deep to see if I can make something more out of them. I really do love the space and cosmos.
Pretty cool project. I messed around with NASA’s API a while back just to pull some asteroid data into a simple script, but I never took it further than printing out numbers in the terminal. Seeing how you built a full dashboard around it makes me realize how much more useful (and fun) it is when you can actually see the info plotted out. Might try something similar myself with charts or live graphs next time I dive into it.
Yeah exactly! Raw data feels dead until you see it. Definitely try it. 👀
THIS IS COOL!
Thanks a lot, RS!
COOL MAN!! I would love to see you like make a asteroid mineral Content or something like that
More stuff coming soon! I'm not yet done with this. They did a really great thing by making these APIs public & free.
So you are saying even I can build stuff using their API
Yeah, exactly! Anyone can. Would love to see what you build.
Streamlit + Plotly is perfect for this.
Exactly! It makes it so simple.
Good job
Really appreciate it, thank you!
Super Impressive!
Thanks so much! Means a lot.