AstroFetch

This project allows you to download NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) images for a specific date range. It utilizes the NASA APOD API to fetch the image data and saves the images locally.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.0 or higher
• requests library (can be installed via pip install requests)

Usage

1. Obtain an API key from the NASA API website by registering at https://api.nasa.gov/.

2. Modify the file settings.json in the project directory with the required parameters:

   • "start_date": The start date of the range in the format "yyyy-mm-dd".
   • "end_date": The end date of the range in the format "yyyy-mm-dd".

3. Run the setup.py script to setup your API key and the required parameters. This will create the params.json file, which is by ignored by git by default in order to keep API keys anonymous. You only have to run this script once.

4. Run the main.py script to initiate the image download process: The script will fetch the APOD image data for each date within the specified range and save the images in the images directory. If an image already exists with the same title, it will skip the download for that particular image.

5. The downloaded images can be found in the images directory.

Deleting Images

To delete all the images stored in the images directory, you can run the deleteImages.py script inside the assets folder.

This will remove all the files inside the images directory.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Feel free to modify and enhance the code according to your requirements.

Note: Ensure that you comply with NASA's usage guidelines and terms when using their APOD API.

For further details, refer to the official NASA APOD API documentation at https://api.nasa.gov/.