nasa

nasa for node

A simple-to-use node.js client for NASA's data API.

install

Node library:

npm install nasa

CLI tool:

npm install -g nasa

From source:

git clone git://github.com/ecto/node-nasa.git 
cd node-nasa
npm link

library

example

var nasa = require('nasa');
 
nasa.dataset({ id: 619 }, function(err, data){
  if (err) console.log(err);
  else console.log(data);
});

methods

All options are objects. { option: 'value' }

All callbacks (cb) shoult be formed as function(err, data){}

If not null, callback errs will contain a String explaining error.

nasa.dataset(options, cb)

Returns specified dataset

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

nasa.search(options, cb)

Returns datasets matching search

Requires String search

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.recent(options, cb)

Returns recent datasets

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.dates(cb)

Returns index of all dates

nasa.date(date, count = 10, cb)

Returns datasets matching a specific date

Requires String date set to a date in the format YYYY or YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD (non-numeric characters are stripped from the var, so YYYYMMDD or YYYY/MM/DD are also valid)

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.categories(cb)

Returns index of categories

nasa.category(options, cb)

Returns specified category

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.tags(cb)

Returns index of tags

nasa.tag(options, cb)

Returns specified tag

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

Optional count (default 10)

CLI

example

commands

license

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Cam Pedersen [e-mail]

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