🚀Getting Started
Welcome to Astronomy API, a web API for retrieving astronomical information.
Obtaining an Application ID and a Secret
To make API calls, you will first need to create an account. Go to the Signup page to create your free account.
After creating an account, you must obtain an Application ID
and an Application Secret
key by clicking the "Create Application"
button from your dashboard. You will be directed to the "View Application" page for the application you just created.
The Application Secret
is visible to you only once during application creation. Save it somewhere because there's no way to retrieve it back. If you lost your secret create a new application and delete the old application.
You will use the Application ID
and the Application Secret
to authenticate with the Astronomy API with Basic Authentication.
You can view your Application ID
later, by clicking the name of the specific application on the dashboard.
Be sure to set the Origin
to the domain of the website when creating an application. If you're planning to use the API on a webpage. The API will respond with a Access Allow Origin
header with the domain you provide.
This is needed if you're calling the API from a web page client since web browsers need CORS setup for remote requests to work.
Basic Authentication
When making API calls to endpoints requiring authentication, you must use the above credentials to create a string that must be used as the authentication string. The algorithm to create the string is very simple. Below are implementations of several commonly used languages.
JS
PHP
Python
The encrypted string must be provided in the API request's Authorization
header, after the term Basic
followed by a space.
In an event of an authentication failure, a 403 Forbidden
response will be returned, which probably means you encrypted the string incorrectly, or your credentials are wrong.
Successful requests always respond with HTTP code 200
.
Sample curl request
For code samples and demos go to demo.astronomyapi.com
Need help with something? or noticed a bug? Please create a ticket on Github
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