lissy93/apod
A CORS-enabled, no-auth wrapper to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
🌌 Public API: go-apod.herokuapp.com
🐙 Source: github.com/Lissy93/go-apod
/apod
Returns full JSON info about todays picture
Example
GET https://go-apod.herokuapp.com/apod
Response
{
"date": "2022-06-20",
"explanation": "There, just right of center, what is that? The surface of Mars keeps revealing new surprises with the recent discovery of finger-like rock spires. The small nearly-vertical rock outcrops were imaged last month by the robotic Curiosity rover on Mars. Although similar in size and shape to small snakes, the leading explanation for their origin is as conglomerations of small minerals left by water flowing through rock crevices. After these relatively dense minerals filled the crevices, they were left behind when the surrounding rock eroded away. Famous rock outcrops on Earth with a similar origin are called hoodoos. NASA's Curiosity Rover continues to search for new signs of ancient water in Gale Crater on Mars, while also providing a geologic background important for future human exploration. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator",
"hdurl": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2206/MarsFingers_Curiosity_1338.jpg",
"media_type": "image",
"service_version": "v1",
"title": "Rock Fingers on Mars",
"url": "https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2206/MarsFingers_Curiosity_960.jpg"
}
/image
Returns todays image
Example
<img
src="https://go-apod.herokuapp.com/image"
alt="Astronomy Picture of the Day"
width="350"
/>
Response
Go-APOD can be self-hosted, either with Docker, via the 1-click Heroku deployment, or by running the executable directly.
A NASA API Key is required, which you can sign up for at api.nasa.gov.
A multi-arch container is available on DockerHub, under lissy93/apod
, or GHCR as ghcr.io/lissy93/go-apod
.
Or, use this docker-compose.yml
template, and just populate with your API key and run docker compose up
.
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e NASA_API_KEY='XXX' -d lissy93/apod
Each release has pre-compiled binaries attached for Windows, Mac and Linux, which can be run directly.
From the Releases Page, download and extract the version for your system, then execute it with: NASA_API_KEY='XXX' ./go-apod
See the Building Locally section below
If you haven't already done so, you'll need to install Go Lang.
Then clone the repogit clone https://github.com/Lissy93/go-apod.git && cd go-apod
go run .
go build
go test
NASA_API_KEY
(Required) - Your API Key, you can sign up for one at api.nasa.govPORT
(Optional) - The port to start the web server on, defaults to 8080
CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS
(Optional) - List of origins which can use the API, defaults to *
/ allNASA_BASE_URL
(Optional) - The base URL upstream GET requests, defaults to NASA's APOD APIThere's also a simple web app included, which can be self-hosted or accessed below, which displays today's image and info.
Licensed under MIT, © Alicia Sykes 2022
docker pull lissy93/apod