nasa/apod-api
Astronomy Picture of the Day API service observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
65/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3928
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 43
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1080 stars · 205 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
NASA's open-source microservice that serves the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) API, returning JSON metadata and image links parsed from the APOD website. It is a Python/Flask service deployable via Docker, and the same code powers NASA's public api.nasa.gov APOD endpoint.
Use cases
- get the astronomy picture of the day for a given date
- self-host my own APOD API for reliability
- fetch NASA APOD image metadata as JSON in my app
- build a space photo widget using the NASA APOD API
- scrape the APOD website into a structured API
- serve an astronomy image API with API key support
When to choose
- you need programmatic access to APOD content with JSON responses
- NASA's hosted instance is rate-limited or unreliable for you and you want to self-host
- you want a lightweight Flask microservice to adapt for your own astronomy data
When to avoid
- you need APIs for other NASA datasets beyond APOD
- you need guaranteed uptime without operating your own deployment
- you need to resolve issues with APOD website content itself, which this project does not control
Facets
service · maturity active
api-framework http-server web-scraping parser astronomy apis self-hosted python self-hosted nasa apod astronomy flask microservice space-imagery docker web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/nasa/apod-api · fetched 2026-08-28 · 70012b8fcefc
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nasa/apod-api | main | 65 |
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