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jakiestfu/himawari.js

Download real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/jakiestfu/himawari.js · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

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: 3862
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1761
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1861 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Node.js library and CLI for downloading real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 geostationary weather satellite, which photographs Earth every 10 minutes. It stitches image tiles at various zoom levels and can generate timelapse videos with ffmpeg.

Use cases

  • download real-time satellite images of earth
  • create timelapse videos of earth from himawari-8
  • fetch latest weather satellite photo from japan meteorological agency
  • download high-resolution earth imagery at different zoom levels
  • get infrared satellite images of earth
  • set satellite earth photo as desktop wallpaper automatically

When to choose

  • you want programmatic or CLI access to Himawari-8 satellite imagery
  • you need tiled, zoomable earth images or timelapse video generation
  • you want a simple npm package with infrared and date options

When to avoid

  • you need imagery from satellites other than Himawari-8
  • you need a maintained project - the latest release was in 2021
  • you need real-time streaming data rather than periodic snapshots

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

image-processing cli http-client data-science developer-tools media cli cross-platform satellite-imagery himawari-8 earth-observation npm-package timelapse nodejs

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