apod_parser_readme.md

apod_object_parser

get a Nasa api key by clicking here.

How to use

1. import the file

import apod_object_parser

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

response = apod_object_parser.get_data(##Pass In Your API key here)

get_date

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

date = apod_object_parser.get_date(response)

get_explaination

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

date = apod_object_parser.get_explaination(response)

get_hdurl

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

date = apod_object_parser.get_hdurl(response)

get_title

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

date = apod_object_parser.get_title(response)

get_url

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

date = apod_object_parser.get_hdurl(response)

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 = apod_object_parser.get_hdurl(response)

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

apod_object_parser.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_path parameter which is the filepath.

apod_object_parser.convert_image(image_path)