urthecast

urthecast is a simple nodejs client library for the services provided by https://developers.urthecast.com

installation

$ npm i urthecast --save

Note: you will need node and npm installed first.

The easiest way to install node.js is with nave.sh by executing [sudo] ./nave.sh usemain stable

getting started

create an instance of the urthecast client with your api_key and api_secret copied from https://developers.urthecast.com/apps

var urthecast = require('urthecast')(MY_KEY, MY_SECRET)

satellite_tracker api

you can execute the urthecast.v1.satellite_tracker() function with the following arguments:

• path: the uri path eg. "/satellites/iss/orbit_points", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast.v1.satellite_tracker("/satellites/iss/orbit_points", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

archive api

you can execute the urthecast.v1.archive() function with the following arguments:

• path: the uri path eg. "/scenes", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast.v1.archive("/scenes", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

AOI api

you can execute the urthecast.v1.consumers() function with the following arguments:

• path: the uri path eg. "/apps/me/aois", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast.v1.consumers("/apps/me/aois", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

events api

you can execute the urthecast.v1.event_streams() function with the following arguments:

• path: the uri path eg. "/events", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast.v1.event_streams("/events", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

low level v1 api

you can execute the urthecast.v1() function with the following arguments:

• path: the uri path eg. "/satellite_tracker/satellites/iss/orbit_points", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast.v1("/satellite_tracker/satellites/iss/orbit_points", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

super low level api

you can execute the urthecast() function directly with the following arguments:

• prefix: this gets prefixed to the path, defaults to "/v1"
• path: the uri path eg. "/v1/satellite_tracker/satellites/iss/orbit_points", defaults to ""
• params: a js object of the query string params
• cb: a callback function which accepts the arguments (err, res)

urthecast("/v1", "/satellite_tracker/satellites/iss/orbit_points", {}, function(err,res){
  console.log( err, res.body )
})

npm module

The urthecast npm module can be found here: https://npmjs.org/package/urthecast

contributing

Please fork and pull request against upstream master on a feature branch.