APOD api suggestion: add ability to return images based on a number or date range

[AdamMurray]

I'm thinking of something like:

https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?count=10&api_key=DEMO_KEY

to return the 10 most recent images. Or:

https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?startDate=2015-04-27&endDate=2015-01-01&api_key=DEMO_KEY

to return images between the start and end dates.

[benjaminboruff]

+1
I like this idea. The start and end dates would probably suffice. I was going to write a frontend app to craft the appropriate number of requests based on user input, but that would mean a lot of requests - those are expensive in terms of time to get the data (and subtract a lot from the hourly rate limit for your api_key), then process the data and request the images, etc.... So instead of 10 data requests/responses, there would only be one data request/response. (The JSON response would be an array of 10 objects, or however many requested. ) Would that ease the API endpoint server's network load? Or increase the load on the DB? It may be a wash.

[gdomingu]

+1

[MichalPaszkiewicz]

+1

[brianthomas]

+1

[joshuatbrown]

Yes please! 👍

[suemareverton]

+1

[martinsuchan]

I like this idea. It might be sufficient to add endpoint for returning all images published in the target month, somethng like:
https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY&month=2015-04

[jnbetancourt]

The latest release of the apod api includes the ability to specify a date range. The details are in the README at: https://github.com/nasa/apod-api