Open Nofity APIs
APIs for api.open-notify.org
Install for the first time:
Make sure you have some packages:
# apt-get install python python-dev python-pip virtualenvwrapper redis-server
Note: if you're installing virtualenvwrapper for the first time, be sure to log out and back in before continuing.
Create a virtual environment
$ mkvirtualenv opennotify
(opennotify)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Get data
(opennotify)$ python update.py
Run locally:
Start virtual environment
$ workon opennotify
Run with foreman using dev procfile:
(opennotify)$ foreman start -f Procfile.dev
Open a browser to localhost:5000.
Run Testsuite
(opennotify)$ cd testsuite
(opennotify)$ pip install -r requirements.txt
(opennotify)$ cd ..
(opennotify)$ make test
API Documentation
Docs are in the gh-pages branch, or on the web here:
Modifications from original source code:
- Updated from Python v2.7 to v3.6
- Changed data source from NASA to Celestrak to simplify parsing
- Implemented Flask-Cors package to enable cross-origin resource sharing
- Deployed using https to allow integration with other https sites. Modern browsers will block a mixed content request (i.e. request to http from https).
Heroku Deployment
To deploy to heroku:
- Create a Heroku app and push the code
- Provision redis add-on
- Modify the name of the Redis URL environmental variable from REDIS_URL to REDISTOGO_URL
- Provision scheduler add-on
- Create a daily recurring task:
$python update.py
License
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.